@inbook{698a5df31d6d4448b87140c610ba9165,
title = "Native and Non-native English Speakers{\textquoteright} Assessment of Nuclear Stress Produced by Chinese Learners of English",
abstract = "This study compared na{\"i}ve native and non-native English speakers{\textquoteright} assessment of nuclear stress produced by Chinese learners of English and explored the effects of prosodic cues on their assessment. Adopting rapid prosody transcription (RPT), na{\"i}ve raters comprising 36 highly proficient non-native English speakers and 30 native English speakers rated 176 sentence recordings produced by six Chinese learners of English. Results revealed that the native and non-native raters made generally comparable judgements and their ratings were reliable compared with expert rating. However, ratings by the two groups differed significantly on 20 sentences. Acoustic analysis showed that while native speakers relied on duration when identifying nuclear stress in learners{\textquoteright} English, non-native speakers relied on both duration and intensity.",
author = "Congchao Hua and Bin Li and Ratree Wayland",
note = "Research Unit(s) information for this publication is provided by the author(s) concerned.; Symposium on Speech and Language on the occasion of Ocke-Schwen Bohn{\textquoteright}s 65th birthday ; Conference date: 14-05-2018",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "16",
doi = "10.7146/aul.322.218",
language = "English",
series = "Anthologies",
publisher = "Aarhus University",
pages = "187--209",
editor = "Nyvad, \{Anne Mette\} and Michaela Hejn{\'a} and Anders H{\o}jen and Jespersen, \{Anna Bothe\} and \{S{\o}rensen \}, \{Mette Hjortsh{\o}j\}",
booktitle = "A Sound Approach to Language Matters",
}