Abstract | ||
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This study investigates how prosodic strengthening is kinematically manifested in V-to-V lingual movement in English CV#CV context ( where # is a prosodic boundary). Results showed that both boundary and accent gave rise to a kind of prosodic strengthening ( showing spatial and temporal expansion), but exact kinematic patterns of prosodic strengthening were different as a function of the type of gesture ( tongue lowering versus raising) associated with different vowels (/i/to-/a/ vs. /a/-to-/i/) and the source of prosodic strengthening ( boundary versus accentuation). This implies that speakers must know about prosodic structure and differentiate the two sources of prosodic strengthening in a systematic fine-grained fashion. From a theoretical point of view regarding a mass-spring gestural model, results suggested that kinematic patterns of prosodic strengthening could not be fully accounted for by any particular dynamical parameter, presenting a complex nature of prosodic strengthening. The results also implied that the theory of the pi-gesture ( the prosodic boundary gesture) under the rubric of the mass-spring gestural model needs to be refined in terms of how the theory defines the exact scope of the pi-gesture's influence in the temporal dimension and how it differentiates boundary-induced articulation from an accent-induced one. Copyright (c) 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1159/000130015 | PHONETICA |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Psychology,Speech recognition,Articulatory phonetics,American English,Linguistics | Journal | 65 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
1-2 | 0031-8388 | 7 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.55 | 10 | 1 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Taehong Cho | 1 | 310 | 37.02 |