28.3936, Books: The Stress Pattern of Sindhi & English: Abbasi

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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:02:15
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: The Stress Pattern of Sindhi & English: Abbasi

Title: The Stress Pattern of Sindhi & English 
Series Title: LINCOM Language Research 11  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LLR-11-The-Stress-Pattern-of-Sindhi-English/en 

Author: Abdul Malik Abbasi

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862888368 Pages: 222 Price: Europe EURO 66.80

Abstract:

This book aims to explore the syllable structure and stress patterns in Sindhi
and English words through the analysis of behavioral data from speech judgment
experiments, and of acoustic data from speech production experiments,
conducted with native speakers of Sindhi and American native speakers. The
evidence presented argues for analyzing Sindhi as a language in which
intonation contours appear to be independent of stress that is completely
orthogonal to F0 contours unlike in most stress languages in which pitch
accents dock on stressed syllables. Sindhi pitch accent rises from the first
syllable in disyllable words, irrespective of syllable weight, and the rise is
followed by a fall at end of the word. The duration and stop closure of
stressed vowels were greater than the unstressed, while F1-F2 and F0 values
were higher in stressed and lower in unstressed vowels which is a quite
evident that phonetic correlates of lexical stress in Sindhi. Thus, the
phonetic analysis of lexical stress discovered strong evidence of modification
of all phonetic exponents of stress which seems to demonstrate that Sindhi is
a stress accent language. In addition, the study investigates learner’s stress
patterns by measuring their reports of word stress location in their Sindhi
and in their L2 English. Results of the experiments show that Sindhi speakers
have less awareness of stress location in their native language than native
English controls, and this effect carries into their L2 English. Teachers of
Sindhi-speaking students should be prepared to provide explicit training on
word stress.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Sindhi (snd)

Written In: English  (eng)

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