Response to inquiry: Assisting bilingual Spanish speakers to identify prosodic stress

[Scott McGinnis]

-----Original Message-----
From: Christia Aquino-Sterling [mailto:C.Aquino-Sterling at asu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:08 AM
To: 'Scott McGinnis'
Subject: RE: Inquiry: Assistant bilingual Spanish speakers identify
prosod icstress



One way would be to accompany the syllabic/prosodic stress with a foot
tap. It worked for me! Be well. @

Cristian R. Aquino-Sterling
Arizona State University
Graduate College of Education
Farmer Education BLDG 428C
Tempe,  AZ  85281-3825
Tel. 480-965-4590

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--Swami Chidvilasananda

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Scott McGinnis [mailto:smcginnis at nflc.org]
Sent:   Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:42 AM
To:     heritage-list at Glue.umd.edu
Subject:        Inquiry: Assistant bilingual Spanish speakers identify
prosodic stress

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

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