Acoustic Correlates of Word Stress as a Cue to Accent Strength

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/26482789:_____/14:#0000528

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rela-2014-0008" target="_blank" >10.2478/rela-2014-0008</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Acoustic Correlates of Word Stress as a Cue to Accent Strength

Original language description

Due to the clear interference of their mother tongue prosody, many Czech learners produce their English with a conspicuous foreign accent. The goal of the present study is to investigate the acoustic cues that differentiate stressed and unstressed syllabic nuclei and identify individual details concerning their contribution to the specific sound of Czech English. Speech production of sixteen female non-professional Czech and British speakers was analysed with the sounds segmented on a word and phone level and with both canonical and actual stress positions manually marked. Prior to analyses the strength of the foreign accent was assessed in a perception test. Subsequently, stressed and unstressed vowels were measured with respect to their duration, amplitude, fundamental frequency and spectral slope. Our results show that, in general, Czech speakers use much less acoustic marking of stress than the British subjects. The difference is most prominent in the domains of fundamental frequen

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Research in Language

ISSN

2083-4616

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Volume of the periodical

2014

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

175-183

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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