Evolution and Emerging Trends of English Stress

Abstract

English stress is the research focus, difficulty and hotspot of linguistics. VOSviewer and CiteSpace were used to provide visualization map of research articles of English stress (1935-2022) in Web of Science dataset. This research investigated the following aspects: the key disciplinary distributions, journal network analysis, document co-citation network and citation bursts analysis, co-authorship network analysis, research hotspot and keyword network analysis, and frontier trends. Results showed that 1) the amount of international research literature on English stress has steadily increased; 2) those research focuses on the following aspects, for example, English, stress, perception, speech, language, acquisition, children, intonation, cues, etc; 3) The core research frontier trends include the following aspects: native language, spell system, acoustic analysis, speaking style, applying shadowing technique, vowel duration, sentence production, word segmentation, American sign language syllable, international Saudi Arabia students level, prosodic delay, auditory comprehension, syllabic, stress pattern, and English listener. 4) Both theoretical and empirical research are emphasized, and the empirical research shows a gradual upward trend in recent years.