This is an abridged version of a tutorial on the (older) experimental literature on the acoustic correlates of, and their contribution to, human stress perception, mainly on the basis of research on English and Dutch. The emphasis is on establishing the relative importance of correlates amd cues. The conclusion is that a reliable acoustic correlate (e.g. peak intensity) is not necessarily a str...

Dutch listeners' looks to printed words were tracked while they listened to instructions to click on one of them. When presented with targets from word pairs where the first two syllables were segmentally identical but differed in stress location, listeners used stress information to recognize the target before segmental information disambiguated the words. Furthermore, the amount of lexical co...

This paper presents preliminary findings of an investigation into the realisation of lexical stress in monolingual and bilingual male adolescents from a community in West Wales. Monolingual speakers of Welsh English were compared with bilinguals from Welsh-speaking and English-speaking homes. This allowed us to explore the effects of language contact and individual linguistic experience on the ...

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On June 15, 2012, Javier J. Martínez Fernández defended his PhD dissertation at University Carlos III Madrid, Spain, entitled; “A stress-awareness approach to safer decision making in the trading process integrating biometric sensor technology”. A great part of the research was funded by Spanish Ministry of Education under the project ARTEMISA (TIN2009-14378C02-02). Javier defended his disserta...

It is the aim of this chapter to introduce the analysis of vocal behaviour and more general paralinguistics in speech and language. By ‘voice’ we refer to the acoustic properties of a speakers’ voice—this will be dealt with in Section 9.2. By ‘speech’ we refer more generally to spoken language in the sense of added linguistics—dealt with in Section 9.3. Obviously, the introduced methods of ling...