Two 8-year-old profoundly deaf children were trained to use contrastive
stress with a visual display, and auditory and acoustic analysis of pre-
and post-training data was carried out. After training, one subject
produced appropriate pitch contours, and changes in F 0, duration, and
intensity on contrastively stressed syllables resembled those of the
hearing subject. Some generalization of newly acquired skills was
observed. The other subject was less successful and unable to convey
contrastive stress, but duration and Fo measurements showed some
improvement. Results, however, indicate that appropriate durational
contrasts are sometimes insufficient or obscured by irregularities such as
inappropriate Fo movement.
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