Glottalization and timing at utterance final position in Hungarian: Reading aloud vs. Spontaneous speech
نویسندگان
چکیده
Speakers tend to mark boundaries of larger prosodic units with glottalization and the deceleration of articulation rate. In the present study, the final parts of Hungarian read and spontaneous utterances were analyzed in the temporal domain (compared to the other parts of the utterances) and in terms of glottalization. We investigated how glottalization and deceleration are related to each other in read and spontaneous speech in Hungarian. We also analyzed if these phenomena depend on the speech mode. Our results revealed connection between glottalization and deceleration in spontaneous speech, whereas for read speech no such relation could be detected. Speech modes were also found to differ in the frequencies of the occurrence of glottalization and the magnitude of the deceleration at utterance final positions.
منابع مشابه
Utterance-final glottalization as a cue for familiar speaker recognition
Several studies have reported systematic differences across speakers in the rate and type of intermittent irregular vocal fold vibration (glottalization). Still, it remains an open question whether human listeners use this speaker-specific information as a cue for recognizing familiar voices. A perceptual experiment was conducted to investigate this issue, concentrating on irregularity in utter...
متن کاملThe long and the short and the final: Phonological vowel length and prosodic timing in Hungarian
The phonological vowel and consonant length distinctions in languages such as Hungarian may provide a constraint on the degree to which prosodic structure can influence speech segment duration. Here we show that, like many other languages, Hungarian does mark prosodic structure with durational variation, in particular, utterance-final lengthening. There is an influence of phonological vowel len...
متن کاملInterruption glottalization in German spontaneous speech
This paper analyzes the occurrence of phonetic interruption cues at points of syntactic irregularities (false starts and truncations) in a large annotated corpus of German dialogues and compares interruption glottalization with laryngealization in terminal low phrase-final prosodies. Glottalization (including glottal stop) predominantly marks word fragments, whereas non-verbal insertions, e.g. ...
متن کاملF0 declination in read-aloud and spontaneous speech
This paper deals with a prosodic comparison of spontaneous and read-aloud speech. More speci cally, the study reports data on F0 declination in these two speaking modes using Swedish materials. For both speaking styles the analysis revealed negative slopes, a steepness-duration dependency with declination being less steep in longer utterances than in shorter ones and resetting at utterance boun...
متن کاملFactors affecting utterance-final vowel devoicing in spontaneous Japanese
Investigation of spontaneous speech corpora has shown that vowel devoicing in Japanese is a statistical phenomena. However, factors behind vowel devoicing have not been fully studied. In addition, there have been no studies that specifically examined pre-pausal vowel devoicing. In this paper, we investigate vowel devoicing in the pre-pausal position, in particular, vowel devoicing occurring at ...
متن کامل