5. The phonetic manifestation of word stress

Dogil, Grzegorz; Williams, Briony

doi:10.1515/9783110197082.1.273

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“…Glottalization may be used for emphasis, and to mark phrase boundaries, but it is not the default realization of initial vowels in English (Cruttenden, 2001). By contrast, in Polish, word-initial syllables have been observed to be characterized by phonetic prominence that preserves the prosodic integrity of lexical items (Dogil, 1999;Newlin-Łukowicz, 2012), which for vowel-inital words is typically realized as glottalization (Schwartz, 2013); sandhi linking processes are largely absent. Unlike languages such as French or English, word-final consonants are not resyllabified to be pronounced as onsets when followed by word-initial vowels.…”

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Phonological Factors Affecting L1 Phonetic Realization of Proficient Polish Users of English

Schwartz

Balas

Rojczyk

2015

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Acoustic phonetic studies examine the L1 of Polish speakers with professional level proficiency in English. The studies include two tasks, a production task carried out entirely in Polish and a phonetic code-switching task in which speakers insert target Polish words or phrases into an English carrier. Additionally, two phonetic parameters are studied: the oft-investigated VOT, as well as glottalization vs. sandhi linking of wordinitial vowels. In monolingual Polish mode, L2 interference was observed for the VOT parameter, but not for sandhi linking. It is suggested that this discrepancy may be related to the differing phonological status of the two phonetic parameters. In the code-switching tasks, VOTs were on the whole more English-like than in monolingual mode, but this appeared to be a matter of individual performance. An increase in the rate of sandhi linking in the code-switches, except for the case of one speaker, appeared to be a function of accelerated production of L1 target items.

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Phonological Factors Affecting L1 Phonetic Realization of Proficient Polish Users of English

Schwartz

Balas

Rojczyk

2015

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“…The results regarding the main acoustic correlates of word-level prominence in German are inconclusive (Isachenko and Schädlich, 1966 say that F0 is a stronger acoustic manifestation of lexical stress in German, while Dogil and Williams, 1999 say that increase in duration matters more in acoustic manifestation of stress).…”

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“…In words of Germanic origin, stress is word-initial. In words of foreign origin -which compose a large part of German vocabulary -stress location is influenced by heavy syllables: long vowels and complex coda's consonantal clusters tend to attract stress (Dogil & Williams, 1999). Wiese (1996) says that there is a preference for antepenultimate stress if the penultimate syllable is open, and a preference for penultimate stress in case of closed penultimate syllable, but he rejects the hypothesis that stress is quantity-sensitive, i.e., attracted by long vowels, or bi-moraic nuclei.…”

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Cross-linguistic differences in the use of durational cues for the segmentation of a novel language

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It is widely accepted that duration can be exploited as phonological phrase final lengthening in the segmentation of a novel language, i.e., in extracting discrete constituents from continuous speech. The use of final lengthening for segmentation and its facilitatory effect has been claimed to be universal. However, lengthening in the world languages can also mark lexically stressed syllables. Stress-induced lengthening can potentially be in conflict with right edge phonological phrase boundary lengthening. Thus the processing of durational cues in segmentation can be dependent on the listener's linguistic background, e.g. on the specific correlates and unmarked location of lexical stress in the native language of the listener. We tested this prediction and found that segmentation by both German and Basque speakers is facilitated when lengthening is aligned with the word final syllable and is not affected by lengthening on either the penultimate or the antepenultimate syllables. Lengthening of the word final syllable, however, does not help Italian and Spanish speakers to segment continuous speech, and lengthening of the antepenultimate syllable impedes their performance. We have also found a facilitatory effect of penultimate lengthening on segmentation by Italians.These results confirm our hypothesis that processing of lengthening cues is not universal, and interpretation of lengthening as a phonological phrase final boundary marker in a novel language of exposure can be overridden by the phonology of lexical stress in the native language of the listener.3

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“…The reason for this is to be found in a historical retraction of the stress that did not affect pitch contours, so that now peaks are realized very late on the posttonic syllable, except in those words that historically had initial stress (Bethin 1998:162-168). Welsh also appears to have undergone a diachronic leftward shift of the stress without concomitant alteration of the melody, producing here too an unusual association of stressed syllables with tonal contours (Dogil and Williams 1999).…”

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