Greater sensitivity to prosodic goodness in non-native than in native listeners
Publication year
2009Author(s)
Source
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 6, (2009), pp. 3522-3525ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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SW OZ DCC CO
Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
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SW OZ NICI CO
F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Journal title
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume
vol. 125
Issue
iss. 6
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 3522
Page end
p. 3525
Subject
DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 1: Language and Communication; PsycholinguisticsAbstract
English listeners largely disregard suprasegmental cues to stress in recognizing words. Evidence for this includes the demonstration of Fear et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 1893-1904 (1995)) that cross-splicings are tolerated between stressed and unstressed full vowels (e.g., au- of autumn, automata). Dutch listeners, however, do exploit suprasegmental stress cues in recognizing native-language words. In this study, Dutch listeners were presented with English materials from the study of Fear et al. Acceptability ratings by these listeners revealed sensitivity to suprasegmental mismatch, in particular, in replacements of unstressed full vowels by higher-stressed vowels, thus evincing greater sensitivity to prosodic goodness than had been shown by the original native listener group.
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