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Constraints of lexical stress on lexical access in English: evidence from native and non-native listeners.

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Four cross-modal priming experiments and two forced-choice identification experiments investigated the use of suprasegmental cues to stress in the recognition of spoken English words, by native (English-speaking) and non-native (Dutch) listeners. ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2002Sep in Journal: Lang Speech (Language : eng)

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1. Lang Speech. 2002 Sep;45(Pt 3):207-28

Constraints of lexical stress on lexical access in English: evidence from native and non-native listeners.

Cooper N, Cutler A, Wales R

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Four cross-modal priming experiments and two forced-choice identification experiments investigated the use of suprasegmental cues to stress in the recognition of spoken English words, by native (English-speaking) and non-native (Dutch) listeners. Previous results had indicated that suprasegmental information was exploited in lexical access by Dutch but not by English listeners For both listener groups, recognition of visually presented target words was faster, in comparison to a control condition, after stress-matching spoken primes, either monosyllabic (mus- from MUsic/muSEum) or bisyl-word recognition labic (admi-from ADmiral/admiRAtion). For native listeners, the effect of stress-mismatching bisyllabic primes was not different from that of control primes, but mismatching monosyllabic primes produced partial facilitation. For non-native listeners, both bisyllabic and monosyllabic stress-mismatching primes produced partial facilitation. Native English listeners thus can exploit suprasegmental information in spoken-word recognition, but information from two syllables is used more effectively than information from one syllable. Dutch listeners are less proficient at using suprasegmental information in English than in their native language, but, as in their native language, use mono- and bisyllabic information to an equal extent. In forced-choice identification. Dutch listeners outperformed native listeners at correctly assigning a monosyllabic fragment (e.g.. mus-) to one of two words differing in stress.

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First Name	LastName	Initials
Nicole	Cooper	N
Anne	Cutler	A
Roger	Wales	R

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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