Are Indonesians sensitive to contrastive accentuation below the word level?

Are Indonesians sensitive to contrastive accentuation below the word level?

It is impossible in Indonesian to express narrow-focus meta-linguistic contrasts<br />on subparts of words (whether meaningless syllables or meaningful morphemes).<br />In English and Dutch this possibility exists, as in I meant coffin not coffer or I said<br />meaningful not meani...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vincent J. van Heuven, Vera Faust
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Indonesia 2009-10-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
Subjects:
accent, dutch, focus, indonesian, meta-linguistic contrast, second-language acquisition of prosodic functions, stress, word-prosodic typology.
Online Access:http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/159

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