THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH STRESS BY SPEAKERS OF NONACCENTUAL LANGUAGES - LEXICAL STORAGE VERSUS COMPUTATION OF STRESS

Authors
ARCHIBALD J
Citation
J. Archibald, THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH STRESS BY SPEAKERS OF NONACCENTUAL LANGUAGES - LEXICAL STORAGE VERSUS COMPUTATION OF STRESS, Linguistics, 35(1), 1997, pp. 167-181
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics","Language & Linguistics
Journal title
Linguistics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00243949
Volume
35
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
167 - 181
Database
ISI
SICI code
0024-3949(1997)35:1<167:TAOESB>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
In this paper I look at the acquisition of English stress by speakers of Chinese and Japanese in a longitudinal study. Based on the observed developmental patterns, and on characteristics of the first languages involved, I argue that the subjects are not computing metrical struct ures (as has been observed in subjects whose L1s are Spanish, Polish, and Hungarian) but rather are storing the English stress lexically.