On the amount and domain of focal lengthening in Swedish two-syllable words
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A production study was conducted to investigate the effect of focus on the temporal structure of Swedish two-syllable words. Speakers read aloud simple three-word sentences with systematic variation of the position of focus in the syntactic structure. All the words in each sentence had the same word accent, either acute or grave and they were all two-syllable non-compounds. In general, focus on a word caused a lengthening of about 25%. However, the amount of lengthening varied with speaker and position in the syntactic structure. Measurements of syllable durations revealed that both syllables in the words contributed to the lengthening but most of the lengthening occurred in the stressed syllable.
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On the amount and domain of focal lengthening in two- syllable and longer Swedish words
Temporal effects of focusing have been investigated in two-syllable and longer Swedish words. Words are lengthened in focus, though to a varying degree by different speakers. Even if stressed syllables are the most affected, the domain of lengthening appears to be the word.
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