Stress- and speech rate-induced vowel quality variation in Catalan and Spanish

Nadeu, Marianna

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2014.05.003

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“…position, although this does not result in any mergers (Nadeu 2014). Similarly, in exceptional cases, in which phonological vowel reduction fails to apply despite absence of lexical stress (i. e. V + N compounds like rentaplats 'dishwasher'), vowel centralization is also observed (Nadeu 2016).…”

Section: Majorcan Catalanmentioning

confidence: 95%

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Stressed postverbal pronominals in Catalan

Nadeu

Simonet

Llompart

2017

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Majorcan Catalan postverbal pronominal elements are typically described as being prominent due to stress shift from their host. This study sheds light on the prosodic phonology of these pronouns through the analysis of duration, vowel quality, and f0 in verb + pronominal sequences, which are compared to a baseline condition without pronominals and to the same sequences in a Catalan variety without stress shift. Our results show acoustic differences in the realization of pronominals in these varieties. The duration and vowel quality patterns are consistent with the stress shift account of postverbal pronominals in Majorcan Catalan. Analysis of f0 contours also reveals phonological differences across varieties. Whereas stressed postverbal pronominals are not rare in Romance, Majorcan Catalan is one of a much reduced number of varieties within the Romance domain, where the attachment of a pronominal element to a host triggers "true" stress shift rather than an additional prominence on the pronominal element, like Sardinian or Neapolitan.

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Section: Majorcan Catalanmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…The interaction is due to the larger difference between conditions in Majorcan Catalan than in Central Catalan. (Nadeu 2014). Like for duration, the two dialects exhibit different patterns.…”

Section: Duration: Vowel In the Postverbal Pronominal/articlementioning

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Stressed postverbal pronominals in Catalan

Nadeu

Simonet

Llompart

2017

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“…To assess whether the vowel space is compressed in the absence of stress, F1 and F2 ratios (Audibert and Fougeron, 2012;Escudero et al, 2009;Nadeu, 2014) were calculated for each of the 23 speakers individually for both stress conditions (presence vs. absence of stress). The ratio between F1 of the low vowel /a/ and the mean F1 of the mid vowels /e/ and /o/ was computed separately for both stress conditions (see equation 1).…”

Section: Romanelli/menegotto/smythmentioning

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Stress-Induced Acoustic Variation in L2 and L1 Spanish Vowels

2018

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Aim: We assessed the effect of lexical stress on the duration and quality of Spanish word-final vowels /a, e, o/ produced by American English late intermediate learners of L2 Spanish, as compared to those of native L1 Argentine Spanish speakers. Methods: Participants read 54 real words ending in /a, e, o/, with either final or penultimate lexical stress, embedded in a text and a word list. We measured vowel duration and both F1 and F2 frequencies at 3 temporal points. Results: stressed vowels were longer than unstressed vowels, in Spanish L1 and L2. L1 and L2 Spanish stressed /a/ and /e/ had higher F1 values than their unstressed counterparts. Only the L2 speakers showed evidence of rising offglides for /e/ and /o/. The L2 and L1 Spanish vowel space was compressed in the absence of stress. Conclusion: Lexical stress affected the vowel quality of L1 and L2 Spanish vowels. We provide an up-to-date account of the formant trajectories of Argentine River Plate Spanish word-final /a, e, o/ and offer experimental support to the claim that stress affects the quality of Spanish vowels in word-final contexts.

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“…This clear cross-linguistic difference between Spanish and English prosodies will probably have an effect on the L2 productions of Spanish-English bilinguals, who are hypothesized to produce less reduced vowels than the English monolinguals. Based on the findings of recent research in Spanish prosody (Cobb and Simonet, 2015;Nadeu, 2014), we also predict that the bilingual speakers are more likely to show specific context-dependent phonetic patterns of vowel reduction rather than a high-order pattern of vowel reduction working at the phonological level. In other words, it is unlikely that the bilinguals reduce the English unstressed vowels as schwa on a regular basis; this would imply that the unstressed vowels cluster in the center of the vowel space and overlap each other as instances of one single vowel category.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…However, more recent research provides evidence of vowel timbre differences between stressed and unstressed vowels at the phonetic level. For instance, in a very detailed account of vowel quality in Spanish and Catalan, Nadeu (2014) found that both vowel quality and vowel duration are sensitive to the absence of lexical stress. Specifically, stressed /a/ was lower in the acoustic vowel space than unstressed /a/ and the unstressed realizations of the Spanish vowels /i, a, o/ were more anterior than their stressed counterparts, although this trend was not consistent across speakers.…”

Section: Acoustic Correlates Of Word Stress In English and Spanishmentioning

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Can Nonnative Speakers Reduce English Vowels in a Native-Like Fashion? Evidence from L1-Spanish L2-English Bilinguals

Fabra

2015

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This paper investigates the production of English unstressed vowels by two groups of early (ESp) and late Spanish (LSp) bilinguals and a control group of native English (NE) monolinguals. Three acoustic measurements were obtained: duration and intensity ratios of unstressed to stressed vowels, normalized vowel formants and euclidean distances. Both groups of bilinguals showed significantly fewer differences in duration between stressed and unstressed vowels than the NE monolinguals. Intensity differences depended on whether the stress pattern of the target English words matched the stress pattern of their Spanish cognates. As for vowel quality, the early bilinguals reduced the unstressed vowels, which clustered around the midcenter area of the vowel space, in the same fashion as the NE monolinguals, suggesting that vowel reduction might be operating at the phonological level. However, the late bilinguals showed a context-dependent, phonetic-level pattern with vowels that were more peripheral in the vowel space.

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Stress- and speech rate-induced vowel quality variation in Catalan and Spanish

Cited by 33 publications

References 54 publications

Stressed postverbal pronominals in Catalan

Stressed postverbal pronominals in Catalan

Stress-Induced Acoustic Variation in L2 and L1 Spanish Vowels

Can Nonnative Speakers Reduce English Vowels in a Native-Like Fashion? Evidence from L1-Spanish L2-English Bilinguals

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