Frequency as (Dis)Advantage to Word Stress Acquisition
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This is an initial study on the acquisition of English word stress by Brazilian Portuguese learners. The results show that incorrect productions typically had penultimate stress. This phenomenon is the focus of our present investigation. Two major factors are likely to be influencing these inaccurate productions: (i) the high frequency of penultimate stress in the firstlanguage lexicon and (ii) category assimilation of phonetic features that characterize English word stress.
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