Phonetic tone signals phonological quantity and word structure

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Tập 128 Số 3 - Trang 1313-1321 - 2010
Martti Vainio1, Juhani Järvikivi2, Daniel Aalto3, Antti Suni4
1University of Helsinki Institute of Behavioural Sciences (Phonetics and Speech Synthesis Research Group), , P.O. Box 9, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland
2Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3Aalto University School of Technology (Helsinki University of Technology) Institute of Mathematics, , P.O. Box 1100, FI-02015, Finland
4University of Helsinki Department of Speech Sciences, , P.O. Box 9, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland

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Many languages exploit suprasegmental devices in signaling word meaning. Tone languages exploit fundamental frequency whereas quantity languages rely on segmental durations to distinguish otherwise similar words. Traditionally, duration and tone have been taken as mutually exclusive. However, some evidence suggests that, in addition to durational cues, phonological quantity is associated with and co-signaled by changes in fundamental frequency in quantity languages such as Finnish, Estonian, and Serbo-Croat. The results from the present experiment show that the structure of disyllabic word stems in Finnish are indeed signaled tonally and that the phonological length of the stressed syllable is further tonally distinguished within the disyllabic sequence. The results further indicate that the observed association of tone and duration in perception is systematically exploited in speech production in Finnish.

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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Tập 128 Số 3

1313-1321

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