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Banzina, Elina; Dilley, Laura C.; Hewitt, Lynne E. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The importance of secondary-stressed (SS) and unstressed-unreduced (UU) syllable accuracy for spoken word recognition in English is as yet unclear. An acoustic study first investigated Russian learners' of English production of SS and UU syllables. Significant vowel quality and duration reductions in Russian-spoken SS and UU vowels were found,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Suprasegmentals, Syllables