Inquiry: Assistant bilingual Spanish speakers identify prosodic stress

[Scott McGinnis]

Dear colleagues,

Can you recommend activities to help bilingual Spanish speakers identify
prosodic stress?   They tell me they "can't hear it" but of course they
do produce words with correct stress intonation.

I have had some success by having students repeat the word aloud,
placing the stress on each syllable & deciding which sounds correct [ex:
RElampago, reLAMpago, relamPAgo, relampaGO].  But some of them can
identify it only when I read the options aloud to them.

Thanks for your help.

Kim Potowski <kpotow1 at uic.edu>
University of Illinois at Chicago