Previous research by Dupoux et al. [J. Memory Lang. 36, 406-421 (1997)] has shown that French @entity1 , as opposed to Spanish @entity1 , have difficulties in distinguishing nonwords that differ only in the location of stress. Contrary to Spanish, French does not have contrastive stress, and French @entity1 are "deaf" to stress contrasts. The experimental paradigm used by Dupoux et al. (speeded ABX) yielded significant group differences, but did not allow for a sorting of individuals according to their stress " @entity2319 ." Individual assessment is crucial to study special populations, such as bilinguals or trained monolinguals. In this paper, a more robust paradigm based on a short-term memory sequence repetition task is proposed. In five French-Spanish cross-linguistic experiments, stress " @entity2319 " is shown to crucially depend upon a combination of memory load and phonetic variability in F0. In experiments 3 and 4, nonoverlapping distribution of individual results for French and Spanish @entity1 is observed. The paradigm is thus appropriate for assessing @entity2319 in individual @entity1 .

A robust method to study stress " XXXX ".

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants'] @entity2319 :: ('MESH:D003638', 'Disease') :: ['stress deafness', 'deafness']
@entity2319 :: (MESH:D003638,Disease) :: ['deafness']
