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Chapter 5 - The Past, Present, and Future of Lexical Stress in Second Language Speech Production and Perception

from Part I - Theoretical Progress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

By
Annie Tremblay
Edited by
Ratree Wayland
Ratree Wayland
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University of Florida
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Summary

This chapter provides a critical review of the research on L2 learners’ lexical stress production and perception conducted over the past three decades, which has sought to explain cross-linguistic variability in L2 learners’ ability to reach target-like generalizations in their stress placement and to encode stress lexically. The chapter begins with a discussion of generative approaches to the study of lexical stress in L2 learners, which focused on the influence of the native-language (L1) phonological grammar on L2 learners’ stress placement. These approaches were subsequently challenged by the seminal work of Susan Guion and colleagues, which examined the influence of statistical regularities on L2 learners’ (and native speakers’) stress placement in novel words. The chapter then discusses phonological approaches to L2 learners’ perception and processing of lexical stress, focusing on Peperkamp and Dupoux (2002)’s Stress Parameter Model and the predictions it made for the encoding of stress in lexical representations by listeners from different L1 backgrounds. These approaches were later refined in studies investigating the importance of phonetic cues to lexical contrasts in the L1 for determining whether L2 learners can perceive lexical stress. The chapter concludes with directions for future research on L2 lexical stress.

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LexicalStressSecondLanguageAcquisitionProsodyProductionPerception
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Second Language Speech Learning
Theoretical and Empirical Progress
 , pp. 175 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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