The role of duration in intonational modelling. A comparative study of Peninsular and Argentinean Spanish
The aim of this study is to compare the intonation of neutral declaratives in Peninsular Spanish (PS) and in Argentinean Spanish (AS) by means of the Autosegmental-Metrical framework. Previous works showed that both varieties differ in the production of both nuclear and pre-nuclear accents. In this...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2010 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Cantabria (UC) |
| Repositorio: | e-spacio (DSpace). Repositorio Institucional de la UNED |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/32101 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/32101 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 5505.10 Filología declarative intonation duration Autosegmental-Metrical framework nuclear and pre-nuclear accents entonación declarativa duración modelo Métrico-Autosegmental acentos nucleares y prenucleares |
| Sumario: | The aim of this study is to compare the intonation of neutral declaratives in Peninsular Spanish (PS) and in Argentinean Spanish (AS) by means of the Autosegmental-Metrical framework. Previous works showed that both varieties differ in the production of both nuclear and pre-nuclear accents. In this study we demonstrate that there is a more robust parameter that contributes to differentiate neutral declaratives in PS and AS, namely, the duration of the nuclear syllable. 600 utterances with one and two accents were analyzed. The pitch traces of PS and AS obtained in this study show similar characteristics in the two languages. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that the duration of the nuclear syllable is significantly longer in AS than in PS indicating that duration seems to be more important than intonation to distinguish between AS and PS declaratives. These results are important to implement Spanish intonation to speech synthesis and speech recognition systems. |
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