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This paper investigated Korean learners’ acquisition of English stress in morphologically derived words in order to find out whether the learners acquire English word stress as a lexical phenomenon or as a rule-governed phenomenon and whether they benefit from training on the English stress system. For that purpose, 29 university students’ perception and production of primary stress in 32 real and 32 nonce words were examined. The results seemed to indicate that the learners learn stress placement in English not only as a rule-governed phenomenon but also as a lexical phenomenon. Importantly, the participants’ performance on stress placement significantly improved in both perception (pre-test 76.38% vs. post-test 89,01%) and production (pre-test 55.39% vs. post-test 82.38%) as a result of four sessions of training. The results also revealed that the precedence of perception over production was confirmed in L2 stress acquisition, but the learners’ pronunciation difficulties were related to their imperfect perception of the target sounds only at the post-test. Moreover, suffix class (class 1 vs. class 2), and lexical category (noun vs. adjective) were shown to play a role in accounting for the overall results, even though there was no effect of word type (real vs. nonce). Patterns of lexical variation were also described and pedagogical implications for L2 English stress were drawn based on the results.
