Catalan speakers’ perception of word stress in unaccented contexts

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• dc.contributor.author Ortega-Llebaria, Martaca
• dc.contributor.author Vanrell, Maria del Marca
• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-ca
• dc.date.accessioned 2016-08-31T12:52:15Z
• dc.date.available 2016-08-31T12:52:15Z
• dc.date.issued 2010
• dc.description.abstract In unaccented contexts, formant frequency differences related to vowel reduction constitute a consistent cue to word stress in English, whereas in languages such as Spanish that have no systematic vowel reduction, stress perception is based on duration and intensity cues. This article examines the perception of word stress by speakers of Central Catalan, in which, due to its vowel reduction patterns, words either alternate stressed open vowels with unstressed mid-central vowels as in English or contain no vowel quality cues to stress, as in Spanish. Results show that Catalan listeners perceive stress based mainly on duration cues in both word types. Other cues pattern together with duration to make stress perception more robust. However, no single cue is absolutely necessary and trading effects compensate for a lack of differentiation in one dimension by changes in another dimension. In particular, speakers identify longer mid-central vowels as more stressed than shorter open vowels. These results and those obtained in other stress-accent languages provide cumulative evidence that word stress is perceived independently of pitch accents by relying on a set of cues with trading effects so that no single cue, including formant frequency differences related to vowel reduction, is absolutely necessary for stress perception.en
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by grants from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia-FEDER HUM2006-01758/PHYLLO and by a URAP grant from the College of Liberal Arts, UT-Austin.en
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• dc.identifier.citation Ortega-Llebaria M, Vanrell MM, Prieto P. Catalan speakers’ perception of word stress in unaccented contexts. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 2010 Jan; 127(1): 462–71. DOI: 10.1121/1.3268506
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3268506
• dc.identifier.issn 0001-4966
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27269
• dc.language.iso engen
• dc.publisher American Institute of Physics (AIP)ca
• dc.relation.ispartof The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2010 Jan; 127(1): 462–71
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PN/HUM2006-01758
• dc.rights © American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Ortega-Llebaria M, Vanrell MM, Prieto P. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1, 2010 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3268506.en
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• dc.subject.keyword Phonetic segmentsen
• dc.subject.keyword Speech analysisen
• dc.subject.keyword Contrast sensitivityen
• dc.subject.keyword Pitchen
• dc.subject.keyword Speechen
• dc.title Catalan speakers’ perception of word stress in unaccented contextsen
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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