Phonetic and phonological properties of the final pitch accent in Catalan declaratives
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This paper examines the phonetic and phonological properties of the last pitch accent in Catalan single and multi-stressed neutral declaratives. Traditionally, the different F0 patterns observed in single stressed structures (clear F0 peak) and in multistressed structures (progressively falling slope or a strongly lowered F0 peak) have been subject to different phonological interpretations (H* and L* respectively). In this study, acoustic and perceptual evidence is provided to show that the different F0 patterns should be interpreted as realisational differences of the same phonological entity (H*).
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