Perception of lexical stress and sentence focus by Korean-speaking and Spanish-speaking L2 learners of English

In this study, 32 Spanish learners of English and 38 Korean learners of English completed a lexical stress and a sentence focus oddity test. The results revealed that having lexical stress and phrasal accent in the L1 facilitates the acquisition of L2 prominence, but that differences in how this information is instantiated in the L1 may have a negative effect in its acquisition.
Source: Language Sciences - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research