APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Marking Stress Explicitly to Foster Prosodic Awareness in Late Speakers of English

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Cognitive

  • Jennifer Gross
    Grand Valley State University
  • Katelin Leahy
    Grand Valley State University
  • Tanveer Mangat
    Grand Valley State University
  • Joshua Gonzales
    Grand Valley State University
  • Andrea Plotkowski
    Grand Valley State University
  • Ashley Rister
    Grand Valley State University
  • Paulina Dzik
    Grand Valley State University

Abstract

Stress and rhythm are unmarked in English’s orthography. To refine prosodic awareness, late speakers of English read stylistically-enhanced poems (intervention) or control conditions (plain poems; prose). Prosody sensitivity was evaluated before and after the intervention and as an individual difference variable. The results revealed predictors of prosodic awareness.

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