Phrase-Final Lengthening in Russian: Pre-boundary or Pre-pausal?

Kachkovskaia, Tatiana

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“… Syllable level: Number of consonantal segments in tonic and posttonic syllables, grouped by Maximum Onset Principle; Consonant identity (manner of articulation) (Klatt, 1976); 4 Voicing of consonants preceding and following syllable nuclei (Chen, 1970); Nucleus identity (syllabic, or vowel class) (Klatt, 1976). 5 Word level: Number of syllables per word (Lehiste, 1976); Inflectional suffix (Yes/No) (Walsh & Parker, 1983); Grammatical category (Anttila et al, 2020); Lemma frequency, log-transformed (Bell et al, 2009) Utterance level : List intonation (Yes/No) (Calder et al, 2013) 6 ; Pre-pausal (Yes/No) (≥200 ms) (Campione & Véronis, 2002; Kachkovskaia, 2014); Articulation rate (syllables/phonation time) (Turk & Shattuck-Hufnagel, 2007). …”

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Linking gender, sexuality, and affect: The linguistic and social patterning of phrase-final posttonic lengthening

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2020

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This paper furthers our understanding of the social forces driving prosodic variation by reporting on production and perception studies of phrase-final posttonic lengthening in American English. Building on past research showing gender-based variation in the production of phrase-final lengthening, I show that this gender effect surfaces only when comparing straight men and straight women. Gay men and straight women lengthen their phrase-final posttonic syllables equally, and both groups do so more than straight men. A matched-guise social-perception experiment shows that listeners associate increased lengthening not only with femininity and male gayness, but with expressive affect. I suggest that the link between increased lengthening and expressive affect is forged iconically and that this link underlies the gender and sexuality patterns observed in the production study. What surfaces from this work theoretically is how variability in expressions of affect may drive correlations between gender/sexuality-based categories and linguistic variants.

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“…Utterance level : List intonation (Yes/No) (Calder et al, 2013) 6 ; Pre-pausal (Yes/No) (≥200 ms) (Campione & Véronis, 2002; Kachkovskaia, 2014); Articulation rate (syllables/phonation time) (Turk & Shattuck-Hufnagel, 2007).…”

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Linking gender, sexuality, and affect: The linguistic and social patterning of phrase-final posttonic lengthening

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2020

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“…Because kinematic articulatory constraints result in lengthened syllables before sentence or phrase boundaries, listeners may have learned to associate lengthening with boundaries and to exploit it as a cue for speech segmentation [ 131 ]. In turn, speakers may have started to intentionally use lengthening to indicate boundaries in the speech stream, also at positions where they did not pause [ 132 ]. Via cultural transmission, this may have resulted in final lengthening becoming a conventionalized but still language-universal boundary signal [ 133 ].…”

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Voice modulatory cues to structure across languages and species

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Fitch

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Voice modulatory cues such as variations in fundamental frequency, duration and pauses are key factors for structuring vocal signals in human speech and vocal communication in other tetrapods. Voice modulation physiology is highly similar in humans and other tetrapods due to shared ancestry and shared functional pressures for efficient communication. This has led to similarly structured vocalizations across humans and other tetrapods. Nonetheless, in their details, structural characteristics may vary across species and languages. Because data concerning voice modulation in non-human tetrapod vocal production and especially perception are relatively scarce compared to human vocal production and perception, this review focuses on voice modulatory cues used for speech segmentation across human languages, highlighting comparative data where available. Cues that are used similarly across many languages may help indicate which cues may result from physiological or basic cognitive constraints, and which cues may be employed more flexibly and are shaped by cultural evolution. This suggests promising candidates for future investigation of cues to structure in non-human tetrapod vocalizations. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact (Part I)’.

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The Influence of Boundary Depth on Phrase-Final Lengthening in Russian

Kachkovskaia

2015

Statistical Language and Speech Processing

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Phrase-Final Lengthening in Russian: Pre-boundary or Pre-pausal?

Cited by 5 publications

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Linking gender, sexuality, and affect: The linguistic and social patterning of phrase-final posttonic lengthening

Linking gender, sexuality, and affect: The linguistic and social patterning of phrase-final posttonic lengthening

Voice modulatory cues to structure across languages and species

The Influence of Boundary Depth on Phrase-Final Lengthening in Russian

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