Explaining Cross-Language Asymmetries in Prosodic Processing: The Cue-Driven Window Length Hypothesis
Cross-language studies have shown that English speakers use suprasegmental cues to lexical stress less consistently than speakers of Spanish and other Germanic languages ; accordingly, these studies have attributed this asymmetry to a possible trade-off between the use of vowel reduction and suprase...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
2019
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