THE PERCEPTION OF ITALIAN AND SPANISH LEXICAL STRESS: A FIRST CROSS-LINGUISTIC STUDY

Iolanda Alfano1, Joaquim Llisterri2 & Renata Savy3
1Università degli Studi di Salerno - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; 2Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; 3Università degli Studi di Salerno

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A preliminary experiment studying the perception of lexical stress in isolated Italian words by Spanish subjects has been carried out in order to find out possible cross-linguistic differences in closely related languages. The results show that there is a combined effect of native language expectations and acoustic information present in the signal.