Syllable weight and duration: A rhyme/intervals comparison

Syllable Weight

Duration of syllable-sized units in casual and elaborated Finnish: a comparison with Swedish and Spanish

Recordings of Finnish casual dialogue and careful reading were analyzed auditorily and on spectrograms. Syllables on the phonological level were compared to syllable-sized units (C ́V ́s) on the phonetic level. Comparisons with existing Swedish and Spanish data revealed several differences: Finnish had much less temporal equalization of syllable-sized units in casual speech than Swedish, and even...

Calculating articulatory syllable duration and prosodic boundaries

Articulatory duration of vowels is often measured as the duration from jaw closure maximum to jaw closure maximum, flanking the production of the syllable nucleus. However, this method may not necessarily represent articulatory syllable duration, since the actual onset/offset of the syllable depends on the specific articulator (lip, tongue) that implements the articulation of the syllable onset...

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...

A Phonetically-driven Account of Syllable Weight

It is proposed that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity. The phonetically best distinctions are claimed to be those which divide syllables into groups which are phonetically most distinct from each other. Phonologically complex distinctions are those which exceed an upper threshold in the number of phonological predicates to which th...