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- Title
Spanish heritage speakers' processing of lexical stress.
- Authors
Ortín, Ramsés
- Abstract
This study examines the status of lexical stress in the processing system of heritage speakers of Spanish and whether or not it is influenced by their experience with English. Participants completed an ABX matching task with auditory stimuli differing in the location of stress or in one consonantal sound. Findings reveal that heritage speakers are more accurate in consonant-based trials than in stress-based ones, but only when matching stimuli were non-adjacent, which suggests that their stress-processing strategies pattern more closely with those of native English speakers. Furthermore, dominance and knowledge of Spanish appear to be associated with increased phonological sensibility to stress contrasts. Pedagogical implications are discussed.
- Subjects
LEXICAL access; HERITAGE language speakers; SPANISH language; PHONOLOGY; CONSONANTS
- Publication
IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2024, Vol 62, Issue 2, p351
- ISSN
0019-042X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/iral-2021-0187