Prieto, Pilar; Vanrell, Maria del Mar; Astruc, Lluïsa; Payne, Elinor and Post, Brechtje
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Abstract
Data from a total of 24 speakers reading 720 utterances from Catalan, English, and Spanish show that differences in rhythm metrics emerge even when syllable structure and vowel reduction are controlled for in the experimental materials, strongly suggesting that important differences in timing exist in these languages, and thus that the rhythmic percept is not solely dependent on these two phonological properties in a given language. Further analyses of the data indicate that the rhythmic class distinctions under consideration finely correlate with differences in the way languages instantiate two prosodic timing processes, namely durational marking of prosodic heads and prosodic edges. A prosody-based hypothesis is proposed regarding the importance of these durational patterns across languages for the perception of rhythmic contrasts.
| Item Type: | Conference Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2010 ISCA |
| Keywords: | rhythm; index measures; prosody-based view of rhythm; prominence duration; final lengthening; Spanish language; Catalan; English; Spanish |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Education and Language Studies > Languages |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
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| Item ID: | 31451 |
| Depositing User: | Lluisa Astruc |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2012 14:28 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2012 12:17 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/31451 |
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