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Guion, Susan G.; Clark, J. J.; Harada, Tetsuo; Wayland, Ratree P. – Language and Speech, 2003
Seventeen native English speakers participated in an investigation of language users' knowledge of English main stress patterns. First, they produced 40 two-syllable nonwords of varying syllabic structure as nouns and verbs. Second, they indicated their preference for first or second syllable stress of the same words in a perception task. Finally,…
Descriptors: Syllables, Suprasegmentals, Vowels, Nouns
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Guion, Susan G.; Harada, Tetsuo; Clark, J. J. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Guion, Clark, Harada and Wayland (2003) found that three factors affect English speakers' stress placement on bisyllabic non-words: syllabic structure, lexical class and stress patterns of phonologically similar real words. The current replication and extension included three groups (N = 30): native English speakers, early Spanish-English…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Form Classes (Languages), Native Speakers, English (Second Language)