Are French Speakers Able to Learn to Perceive Lexical Stress Contrasts?
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The aim of this research is to examine whether French speakers are able to store and retrieve lexical stress information, using a task in which shapes and Spanish pseudowords are matched. The role of the acoustic correlates of lexical stress in the integration of the accentual information was also studied. Results do not seem to support the hypothesis of ‘stress deafness’.
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