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    This document discusses lexical stress in Japanese, which is classified as a pitch-accent language. It is neither completely accentual like Mandarin nor stress-timed like English. The processing of accentual languages has been more extensively studied in phonology than phonetics. The document analyzes how frequency, intensity, and duration are used to encode lexical stress in Japanese-accented English. It finds that frequency is the most robust correlate used by Japanese speakers to signal stress in English words. Intensity and duration are used equally, suggesting they do not rely primarily on either one.

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    This document discusses lexical stress in Japanese, which is classified as a pitch-accent language. It is neither completely accentual like Mandarin nor stress-timed like English. The processing of accentual languages has been more extensively studied in phonology than phonetics. The document analyzes how frequency, intensity, and duration are used to encode lexical stress in Japanese-accented English. It finds that frequency is the most robust correlate used by Japanese speakers to signal stress in English words. Intensity and duration are used equally, suggesting they do not rely primarily on either one.

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    This document discusses lexical stress in Japanese, which is classified as a pitch-accent language. It is neither completely accentual like Mandarin nor stress-timed like English. The processing of accentual languages has been more extensively studied in phonology than phonetics. The document analyzes how frequency, intensity, and duration are used to encode lexical stress in Japanese-accented English. It finds that frequency is the most robust correlate used by Japanese speakers to signal stress in English words. Intensity and duration are used equally, suggesting they do not rely primarily on either one.

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    Lexical Stress in Japanese

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    This document discusses lexical stress in Japanese, which is classified as a pitch-accent language. It is neither completely accentual like Mandarin nor stress-timed like English. The processing of accentual languages has been more extensively studied in phonology than phonetics. The document analyzes how frequency, intensity, and duration are used to encode lexical stress in Japanese-accented English. It finds that frequency is the most robust correlate used by Japanese speakers to signal stress in English words. Intensity and duration are used equally, suggesting they do not rely primarily on either one.

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    Lexical Stress in

    Japanese: A Prototypical
    Pitch-Accent Language
    M. Alhafiz Dinanda
    In the classification of suprasegmental typologies in the
    world's languages, Japanese is described as an
    accented language.
    • It is used to describe languages ​that are neither
    completely accented like Mandarin not completely
    accented like English.

    • The processing of accented languages ​has a


    richer history in phonology than in phonetics. In
    fact, it is difficult to find an acoustic explanation for
    the correlation between tonal languages.
    F0 in Japanese and Japanese- Focus on Intensity Focus on Duration Correlate Ranking
    Accented EnglishIn Vowel duration is phonemic in
    the nuclei of the penultimate Japanese. Consequently, one does
    Intensity was used to encode lexical
    syllables are 10 ms longer than not expect it to be used to signal
    Intensity was used to encode lexical stress in <Stella>, <plastic>, and
    those of the ultimate syllables. lexical stress. The fact that intensity
    stress in <Stella>, <plastic>, and <station>, that is, 42.85% of the
    We see this in the pronunciation and duration are used equally
    <station>, that is, 42.85% of the time. In time. In <maybe>, <brother>,
    of <plastic>, <Wednesday>, and implies that Japanese speakers do
    <maybe>, <brother>, <also>, and <also>, and <Wednesday>, the
    <station>. However, for four not rely on either to encode lexical
    <Wednesday>, the intensity of the intensity of the putative stressed
    words, <Stella>, <brother>, stress. It entails, therefore, that F0 is
    putative stressed syllable is either syllable is either auditorily
    <also>, and <Wednesday>, the the most robust correlate that
    auditorily indistinguishable from that of the indistinguishable from that of the
    nuclei of the putative strong Japanese speakers of English rely
    putative unstressed syllable. putative unstressed syllable
    syllables fall short of the JND of on to signal lexical stress.
    10 ms.
    Thank You

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