Recent work

Perception of Lexical Stress in Russian

This was a final project adapted from Dutch Listeners’ Perception of English Lexical Stress: A Cue-Weighting Approach by Annie Tremblay et al. (2021).  I examined the independent and overlapping effects of changing various acoustic correlates of stress in Russian speech on token perception of native speakers and advanced learners.  The study found that Russian speakers relied on duration and vowel quality cues relatively evenly when pitch was neutralized but prioritized each cue individually over pitch.  On the other hand, English speakers relied mainly on vowel quality and pitch, except for атлас, where duration became the major cue.