Cross-language speech perception: Lexical stress in Spanish with Italian and francophone subjects. Alfano, I., Schwab, S., Savy, R., & Llisterri, J. In Schmid, S., Schwarzenbach, M., & Studer, D., editors, AISV 2009. La dimensione temporale del parlato. Atti del 5\textsuperscripto Convegno Nazionale AISV - Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce. Università di Zurigo. 4-6 Febbraio 2009, pages 455-474, Torriana, 2010. EDK Editore.
Cross-language speech perception: Lexical stress in Spanish with Italian and francophone subjects [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
The present work analyses the perception of lexical stress in Spanish by Italian and French native speakers, trying to take into account the differences between Italian, French and Spanish stress systems both in perception and in production. Our results indicate that native language influence is not sufficient to explain the perception process in a foreign language, suggesting that non-native subjects use not only purely 'linguistic' perception strategies, since their choices seem to be also determined by psycholinguistic factors and by acoustic properties of the signal.

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