Metrical Structure and Jaw Opening
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Acoustic and articulatory measurements were made of utterances containing seven syllables using the vowel /aI/ with varying degrees of prominence, including contrastive emphasis/focus. A trained phonetician judged the amount of prominence for each of the seven syllables. The findings show a significant correlation between amount of jaw opening for each of the target syllables and perceived prominence. There is also similarity between the patterns of perceived prominence for each sentence and the pattern of jaw opening for each utterance; however, more striking is the finding of alternating amounts of jaw opening for each syllable, suggesting that jaw opening may play an important articulatory role in implementing the foot-structure of an utterance.
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