Beňuš, Štefan and Mády, Katalin (2010) Effects of lexical stress and speech rate on the quantity and quality of Slovak vowels. In: 5. Speech Prosody Conference, Chicago, Chicago, USA.
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Abstract
We investigate the relationship between vowel quantity and the utilization of formant space in Slovak, and how prosodic variation in speech rate and lexical stress marking affects this relationship. Slovak presents a common five-vowel system with full phonemic quantity contrast for all vowels in all positions. We found that 1) phonemic quantity contrast in Slovak is salient and minimally affected by lexical stress and speech rate, and 2) shortening due to phonemic contrast and destressing but not due to speech rate, are accompanied by vowel space contraction. We compare the results to the geographically neighboring la nguages Czech and Hungarian that display similar prosodic characteristics to Slovak.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture) |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature / szláv, balti, albán nyelvek és irodalom |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Katalin Mády |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2014 15:43 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Apr 2023 07:52 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/8762 |
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