How language-specific and cross-linguistic factors affect speech rhythm
| Autor: | Nafiseh Taghva, Shouvik Chaudhuri |
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| Jazyk: | Catalan; Valencian<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Galician |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Estudios de Fonética Experimental, Vol 33 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1575-5533 2385-3573 |
| Popis: | This study examined the durational aspects of speech rhythm in Bengali (L1) and English spoken by educated Bengali advanced English learners (L2) to represent the effect of language-specific and cross-linguistic factors on speech rhythm. Employing metrics such as rateSyl, ΔC, nPVI-C, nPVI-V, VarcoV, %V, and ΔPeakLn, the study revealed that L1 exhibited a faster tempo, shorter consonants, and longer vowels relative to consonants, while L2 speech demonstrated greater variability in consonant and vowel durations, which are language-specific factors of L1 being a syllable-timed language and L2 being a stress-timed language. However, sonority patterns between syllables seemed consistent across L1 and L2 suggesting the cross-linguistic impact of L1 on L2. Moreover, the results identified the proportion of vocalic intervals (%V) as the most effective metric for differentiating between L1 and L2 rhythms. |
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