Perception and Production of Geminate Timing in Hungarian Voiceless Stops

Neuberger, Tilda (2022) Perception and Production of Geminate Timing in Hungarian Voiceless Stops. In: Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2021. Palacký University Olomouc, pp. 299-313.

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Abstract

Hungarian is a language that expresses semantic differences using contrastive consonant length. Previous research in many languages confirmed that duration is the most important acoustic correlate of the singleton-geminate contrast. The present study aims to examine the acoustic and perceptual correlates which distinguish single stops from their geminate counterparts in Hungarian. The main question is how closure duration contributes to the perception and production of the length contrast of voiceless stops? Results confirmed that closure duration is the main acoustic attribute that distinguishes between singletons and geminate stops in Hungarian, and it is a sufficient cue for discriminating them in perception as well. Analysis of the relationship between consonant and preceding vowel duration did not support the strategy of temporal compensation. Findings are supposed to explore the relationship between the acoustic and perceptual domains and shed light on the primary/secondary acoustic features of consonant length opposition in Hungarian.

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