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Corpus of Dutch Lexical Stress (CooLeSt)

Severijnen, G.G.A., Bosker, H.R., & McQueen, J.M. (2024). Corpus of Dutch Lexical Stress (CooLeSt). Version 2. Radboud University. (dataset). https://doi.org/10.34973/vkkk-yg79

Description This corpus contains speech recordings, recorded from 22 native speakers of Dutch (9F/13M). Participants produced Dutch minimal stress pairs, differing in whether they have initial or final stress (e.g., VOORnaam vs. voorNAAM, ‘first name’ vs. ‘respectable’). The corpus contains all the recordings, forced-aligned Praat TextGrids, and manually checked word-level and syllable-level annotations.

This is a subset of the data that has been analyzed in Severijnen, G.G.A., Bosker, H.R., & McQueen, J.M. (2024). Your “VOORnaam” is not my “VOORnaam”: An acoustic analysis of individual talker differences in word stress in Dutch. Journal of Phonetics, 103, 101296..

For more details on the trial structure, acoustic measurements, and analysis scripts, please refer to the paper or get in touch with me.