An Experiment on Lexical Stress in Pakistani English Speech

• Published in: Corpus pragmatics : international journal of corpus linguistics and pragmatics Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 75 - 103
• Main Authors: Abbasi, Abdul Malik, Shaikh, Imtiaz Husain, Bakhsh, Illahi, Khosh, Neda Kameh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.03.2025
• Subjects: Computational Linguistics; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities; Linguistics; Original Paper; Pragmatics; Semantics; Social Sciences; Lexical stress; Pakistani English; Algorithm; Accent; Speech recognition; Machine learning

The study aims to investigate acoustic patterns of word stress in Pakistani English (PE) speech. It hypothesizes that lexical stress in Pakistani English modifies acoustic properties and that speakers of English do not differentiate disyllabic words as nouns or verbs based on lexical stress in Engli...