Italian speakers learn lexical stress of German morphologically complex words

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 933-947

  Bissiri, Maria Paola ^a,b   Pfitzinger, Hartmut R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

CALL; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Intensity; Intonation; Lexical stress; Local speech rate; Performance assessment; Prosody modification

Indexed keywords

CALL; COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; INTENSITY; INTONATION; LEXICAL STRESS; LOCAL SPEECH RATE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROSODY MODIFICATION;

LINGUISTICS; TEACHING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 67650577164     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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