The influence of syllable structure on the timing of intonational events in German
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چکیده
The present study deals with the in uence of syllable structure on the the ne alignment of accent commands of the Fujisaki-model. The corpus used in this study consists of three-syllable words of German with word-accent on the second syllable which were uttered in citationform. It is examined which factors in uence accent command onset time T1 and accent command o set time T2. T1 can be predicted most accurately relative to the duration of the nuclear vowel. The prediction error can be further reduced when the type of the consonant immediately preceding the vowel is taken into account. T2 closely aligned with the segmental o set of the syllable.
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