Perception of English lexical stress by Iraqi Arabic and Chinese Malaysian ESL learners

• Main Author: Ali, Hasan Shaban
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Vocabulary - Study and teaching - Foreign speaker - Case studies; Lexical phonology; English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speaker - Case studies
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75576/1/FBMK%202018%2061%20IR.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75576/

Lexical stress is argued to have a significant role in native speakers’ perception and control of speech (Field, 2005; Cutler, 1984). Previous studies have shown that second language learners, particularly those from a non-stress language background, may not acquire the system of stress in the...