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The Perception of Lexical Stress in Malaysian English
2020
3L Language, Linguistics and Literature: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies
Malaysian English is described as a variety of English that lacks perceivable lexical stress. This, in turn, could affect its intelligibility to non-Malaysian listeners. This paper examines if lexical stress can be detected in Malaysian English. The findings were based on two listening tasks completed by 65 respondents from three neighbouring countries: Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. In the first task, they were required to listen to recordings of the Malaysian speakers, and mark the
doi:10.17576/3l-2020-2604-01
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