Rhythm and final lengthening in French  

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Fletcher, J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Phonetics vol. 19 no. 2 (Apr. 1991), page 193 - 212.

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A major assumption of the syllable-timing/stress-timing distinction is that interstress interval length in a language like Freneh should be a direct additive function of the number of syllables a unit contains. In stress-timed languages, by contrast, stress foot length is supposed to show a relationship of negative acceleration with increasing syllable number due to an underlying tendency for the isochronous spacing of stresses. Previous studies of American English and Swedish show that interstress intervals are not only positively correlated with intervening number of syllables, there is no relationship of negative acceleration between foot length in syllables and foot duration. Acoustic timing data for French concur with these findings. A further experiment examines syllabic and segmental timing patterns associated with intonational phrasing in French. There is some evidence that accented syllables at the edge of intonational phrases are longer than phrase internal accents. Closer examination of the durational patterning of the syllable nuclei reveals less clearcut duration contrasts. In spite of a high degree of interspeaker variability, vowel identity clearly plays an interactive role in determining how salient prosodic duration contrasts will be among accented vowels.

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