The perception of Italian and Spanish lexical stress: A first cross-linguistic study. Alfano, I., Llisterri, J., & Savy, R. In Trouvain, J. & Barry, W. J, editors, ICPhS 2007. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pages 1793-1796, Saarbrücken, Germany. 6-10 August. 2007, 2007.
The perception of Italian and Spanish lexical stress: A first cross-linguistic study [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
A preliminary experiment studying the perception of lexical stress in isolated Italian words by Spanish subjects has been carried out in order to find out possible cross-linguistic differences in closely related languages. The results show that there is a combined effect of native language expectations and acoustic information present in the signal.

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