Preboundary lengthening and preaccentual shortening across syllables in a trisyllabic word in English

Cho, Taehong; Kim, Jiseung; Kim, Sahyang

doi:10.1121/1.4800179

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“…Another stress-related durational effect might be leakage of final lengthening to an IP-penultimate stressed syllable, as has been found for Dutch in words ending in a syllable with schwa (Cambier-Langeveld 2000: 50). Such effects have also been found for English (Shattuck-Hufnagel & Turk 1998, Cho et al 2013. A comparison of the penultimate syllable in Ambonese Malay IP-final words with the same syllable in IP-medial words failed to reveal any leakage of final lengthening to the penultimate syllable, as can be seen in Fig.…”

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No stress, no pitch accent, no prosodic focus: the case of Ambonese Malay

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Gussenhoven

2016

Phonology

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Varieties of Malay, including Indonesian, have been variously described as having word stress on the penultimate syllable, as having variable word stress and as having a phrase-final pitch accent without word stress. In Ambonese Malay, the alignment of sentence-final pitch peaks fails to support the existence of either word stress or phrase-final pitch accents. Also, the shape of its pitch peaks fails to vary systematically with the information status of the phrase-final word. The two intonation melodies of the language include phrase-final boundary-tone complexes which do not associate with any syllables. The declarative rise-fall would appear to be timed so as to occur within the last word of the sentence. Minimal stress pairs presented in earlier descriptions show a contrast between /a/ and a segmentally distinct weak /ă/, a contrast that also appears in positions that have not been claimed to have stress. A preliminary phonological analysis concludes the account.

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Section: A: Bsupporting

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No stress, no pitch accent, no prosodic focus: the case of Ambonese Malay

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Gussenhoven

2016

Phonology

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“…4 It has also been argued that prominence and phrasing have similar functions cross-linguistically [5,6,9,22,70]. The current discussion is limited to the interaction of boundary and prominence in the pre-boundary domain, as the relationship between the two phenomena has been less examined in the post-boundary domain (but see [15,71]).…”

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Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes

Krivokapic

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Prosodic structure is a grammatical component that serves multiple functions in the production, comprehension and acquisition of language. Prosodic boundaries are critical for the understanding of the nature of the prosodic structure of language, and important progress has been made in the past decades in illuminating their properties. We first review recent prosodic boundary research from the point of view of gestural coordination. We then go on to tie in this work to questions of speech planning and manual and head movement. We conclude with an outline of a new direction of research which is needed for a full understanding of prosodic boundaries and their role in the speech production process.

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“…For example, while preboundary lengthening in English is generally observed in a final syllable or a final rhyme of a phrase‐final word (e.g., Klatt ; Edwards et al ; Wightman et al ; Byrd and Saltzman ), a recent paper by Turk and Shattuck‐Hufnagel () showed multiple targets of preboundary lengthening: the final syllable and the stressed non‐final antepenultimate syllable, indicating that preboundary lengthening may skip the intervening penultimate unstressed syllable and be extended to a stressed antepenultimate syllable (e.g., Michigan ). A small‐scaled recent paper by Cho, Kim, and Kim () showed that the effect can be extended even beyond the non‐final stressed syllable to the initial unstressed syllable in the trisyllabic test word banana . A similar interaction of preboundary lengthening with stress is found in other languages but in a language‐specific way.…”

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Prosodic Boundary Strengthening in the Phonetics–Prosody Interface

Cho

2016

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Prosodic structure has been assumed to serve as a frame for articulation, so that phonetic shaping of abstract phonological representations is fine-tuned as a function of the prosodic system of the language. The intricate relationship between phonetics and prosodic structure has been explored in the literature under the rubric of the phonetics-prosody interface. This paper reviews various aspects of the phonetics-prosody interface and discusses how prosodic structure modulates phonetic realization within and across languages. A particular attention is paid to boundary-related prosodic strengthening (i.e., spatial and/or temporal expansion of articulation that arises in the vicinity of prosodic junctures), especially in association with domain-initial positions (also known as domain-initial strengthening, DIS, effects). Prosodic boundary strengthening is further discussed in terms of how it is language-specifically fine-tuned, how it is understood in dynamical terms, and how it relates to linguistic functions (as syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic contrast enhancement) that are all further conditioned by other factors of the linguistic sound system of individual languages such as the prominence system and the phonetic feature system.

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Preboundary lengthening and preaccentual shortening across syllables in a trisyllabic word in English

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

No stress, no pitch accent, no prosodic focus: the case of Ambonese Malay

No stress, no pitch accent, no prosodic focus: the case of Ambonese Malay

Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes

Prosodic Boundary Strengthening in the Phonetics–Prosody Interface

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