This study investigates the effect of native language (L1) stress properties on the second
language (L2) acquisition of primary word stress in light of two recent typological …

This study investigates Spanish heritage speakers' perception and production of Spanish
lexical stress. Stress minimal pairs in various prosodic contexts were used to examine …

This study investigates whether the learning of prosodic cues to word boundaries in speech
segmentation is more difficult if the native and second/foreign languages (L1 and L2) have …

This study examined stress processing among Mandarin and Korean second language
learners of English and English monolinguals. While both English and Mandarin have …

The objectives of this study are (a) to determine if native speakers of Canadian French at
different English proficiencies can use primary stress for recognizing English words and (b) …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine whether oral bilingualism could be an
advantage for children with hearing loss when learning new words. Method Twenty …

The present study assessed LENA's suitability as a tool for monitoring future language
interventions by evaluating its reliability, construct validity, and criterion validity in infants …

This study investigates the use of prosodic information in the segmentation of French speech
by mid-level and high-level English second/foreign language (L2) learners of French and …

We asked whether increased exposure to iambs, two-syllable words with stress on the
second syllable (eg, guitar), by way of another language–Spanish–facilitates English …

This study investigates how phonological and phonetic aspects of the native-language (L1)
intonation modulate the use of tonal cues in second-language (L2) speech segmentation …