The domain of articulation rate variation in Czech (jp970045)  

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Dankovicova J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Phonetics vol. 25 no. 3 (Jul. 1997), page 287-312.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JOP/25 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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An experiment was conducted to investigate whether variation in articulation rate has a specific domain in spontaneous Czech speech. Three types of unit were examined as candidate domains: the interpause stretch, the intonation phrase, and the clause. Articulation rate within these units was measured for each phonological word. The analysis showed that articulation rate was not constant in any of these candidate domains. However, a regular pattern was found within the intonation phrase, consisting of a slowing down (rallentando) with the first or the second phonological word being the fastest word in the majority of intonation phrases. Although phrase-final lengthening contributes to the decrease at the end of the intonation phrase, other factors contribute to the overall pattern. As one possible determinant of articulation rate, the size of phonological words was considered. Only a weak tendency was found for the articulation rate of the word to increase with its size expressed in the number of syllables. The hypothesis that the interpause stretch and/or clause might constitute hierarchically higher domains of variation in articulation rate was not confirmed. The intonation phrase seems to be a domain of articulation rate variation, specifically, phrase-final lengthening. Some evidence was also found for the interpause stretch as a superordinate domain of phrase-final lengthening.

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