X Domain-initial Articulatory Strengthening in Four Languages

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This paper is about one way in which prosody affects individual speech segments, with segmental phonetics showing a perhaps surprising sensitivity to higher-level linguistic structure. By prosody we mean the phrasal and tonal organization of speech. We will show that phonetic properties of individual segments depend on their prosodic position, or position in prosodic structure. It is well-known that in a monosyllabic CVC word, the initial consonant can be pronounced differently than the final consonant, the initial consonant being longer and having greater articulatory magnitude (e. Some interesting recent acoustic studies have extended this line of inquiry above the syllable and word level to phrasal levels. For example, at the LabPhonII conference, Pierrehumbert & Talkin (1992) presented a study in which they used acoustic measures of breathiness to show that /h/ is more consonant-like when it is phrase-initial than when it is phrase-medial (" The phrase boundary was found to shift articulation on both sides in a more consonantal direction " , p. 116). Similarly, the Voice Onset Time (VOT) of /t/ is longer phrase-initially. This latter result was extended by Jun (1993), who compared the VOT of Korean /p h / in three positions: initial in a small phrase, initial in a word, medial in a word; VOT varied as shown in Figure X.1. 10 30 50 70 Phrase initial Word initial Word medial Figure X.1. VOT of Korean /p h / as a function of prosodic position. Our summary of data from Jun 1993:235 (Figure 6.2).

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تاریخ انتشار 1998