Stress is accentuation of syllables within words, or of words within sentences. This chapter
deals with the first of these phenomena: lexical, or word stress. In lexical-stress languages …

The general literature on the phonetic correlates of stress agrees that duration, and in stress
accent languages, F0 are consistent correlates of stress. However, the role of amplitude …

Two studies explored the role of native language use of an acoustic cue, vowel duration, in
both native and non-native contexts in order to test the hypothesis that non-native listeners' …

This thesis examines the intonation patterns found in two varieties of Spanish, as spoken in
Lima and Cuzco, Peru, and compares them with the patterns found for Cuzco Quechua …

Two experiments investigated the way acoustic markers of prominence influence the
grouping of speech sequences by adults and 7-month-old infants. In the first experiment …

According to Sluijter and colleagues (1996b, 1997), stress is independent from accent
because it has its own phonetic cues: stressed vowels are longer and have flatter spectral …

The significance of pitch, duration and intensity cues to lexical stress in Spanish was first
discussed in 1964 (Contreras 1964, Navarro Tomás 1964). While duration and intensity …

English speakers' perception of word-stress in Spanish was compared to that of native
Spanish controls. All participants performed a word-stress detection task in Spanish …

Broadly speaking, linguistic prominence refers to the acoustic and perceptual salience of
some element in a given domain. Many terms are used to identify various types of …

In the literature on second language phonology, numerous studies have investigated the
influence of the speech sounds from the first language (L1) to the second language …