Articulatory characteristics of preboundary lengthening in interaction with prominence on tri-syllabic words in American English.

Autor: Kim S; Department of English Education, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea sahyang@hongik.ac.kr., Jang J; Hanyang Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Lab, Department of English Language and Literature, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea jiyoungljang@gmail.com, tcho@hanyang.ac.kr., Cho T; Hanyang Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Lab, Department of English Language and Literature, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea jiyoungljang@gmail.com, tcho@hanyang.ac.kr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America [J Acoust Soc Am] 2017 Oct; Vol. 142 (4), pp. EL362.
DOI: 10.1121/1.5005132
Abstrakt: This study investigated articulation of preboundary lengthening (PBL) in tri-syllabic pseudo words (bábaba, babába, bababá) in American English. Results from 10 speakers showed that PBL was modulated by the degree of prominence, i.e., the less prominent, the more PBL. PBL was attracted to the penultimate stressed syllable but only when the word received no pitch accent whereas the antepenultimate syllable showed no PBL. Kinematically, PBL was accompanied by a larger movement along with an increase in peak velocity, showing a kind of boundary-related articulatory strengthening, although there was some evidence of temporal expansion possibly due to lowered stiffness.
Databáze: MEDLINE