The Role of Nuclear Stress in Intelligibility: The Case of Cantonese Speakers of English

Simon Ka Ngai Leung; Janice Wing Sze Wong

The Role of Nuclear Stress in Intelligibility: The Case of Cantonese Speakers of English

Simon Ka Ngai Leung, Janice Wing Sze Wong

Department of English Language and Literature

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The current study investigates the effects of nuclear stress on intelligibility for listeners who are Cantonese speakers of English. Three groups of participants listened to different versions of the same speech: group A listened to the lecture with accentuation on new information; group B listened to the lecture with accentuation on given information; group C listened to the lecture with no accentuation. Results found that group A recognized and identified significantly more new information than group B and group C, suggesting the importance of nuclear stress production and placement to the communication between Cantonese speakers of English.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2016)
Publisher	The Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association
Pages	329-332
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016
Event	The 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, SST 2016 - Sydney, Austria Duration: 6 Dec 2016 → 9 Dec 2016 https://assta.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SST2016_Proceedings.pdf (Conference proceedings) https://assta.org/sst-2016-proceedings/ (Conference website)

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Name	Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Publisher	The Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association
ISSN (Print)	2207-1296

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Conference	The 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, SST 2016
Country/Territory	Austria
Period	6/12/16 → 9/12/16
Internet address	https://assta.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SST2016_Proceedings.pdf (Conference proceedings) https://assta.org/sst-2016-proceedings/ (Conference website)

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Leung, S. K. N., & Wong, J. W. S. (2016). The Role of Nuclear Stress in Intelligibility: The Case of Cantonese Speakers of English. In Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2016) (pp. 329-332). (Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology). The Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association.

Leung, Simon Ka Ngai ; Wong, Janice Wing Sze. / The Role of Nuclear Stress in Intelligibility : The Case of Cantonese Speakers of English. Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2016). The Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association, 2016. pp. 329-332 (Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).

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Leung, SKN & Wong, JWS 2016, The Role of Nuclear Stress in Intelligibility: The Case of Cantonese Speakers of English. in Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2016). Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, The Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association, pp. 329-332, The 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, SST 2016, Austria, 6/12/16.

The Role of Nuclear Stress in Intelligibility : The Case of Cantonese Speakers of English. / Leung, Simon Ka Ngai; Wong, Janice Wing Sze.

Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2016). The Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association, 2016. p. 329-332 (Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).

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