Clinical Manifestations.

Background: Neuropsychological language assessment batteries usually include connected speech tasks (e.g. the description of a picture).

Stress-Induced Acoustic Variation in L2 and L1 Spanish Vowels.

Aim: We assessed the effect of lexical stress on the duration and quality of Spanish word-final vowels /a, e, o/ produced by American English late intermediate learners of L2 Spanish, as compared to those of native L1 Argentine Spanish speakers.

Methods: Participants read 54 real words ending in /a, e, o/, with either final or penultimate lexical stress, embedded in a text and a word list. We measured vowel duration and both F1 and F2 frequencies at 3 temporal points.