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Direct linkGuion, 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
Anderson, Jennifer L.; Morgan, James L.; White, Katherine S. – Language and Speech, 2003
Infants under six months are able to discriminate native and non-native consonant contrasts equally well, but as they learn the phonological systems of their native language, this ability declines. Current explanations of this phenomenon agree that the decline in discrimination ability is linked to the formation of native-language phonemic…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Phonology, Infants, Statistical Analysis
