Ilse Lehiste
Biographic Data
| ID | 286378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilse Lehiste |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilse |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehiste |
| SIGNATURE | LEHISTE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Quantity in Livonian
The paper describes work done up to now with Livonian, the southernmost Finnic language. The study proceeds within the framework of the Finno-Ugric Prosody Project: a set of test sentences is recorded by a number of native speakers, an acoustic-phonetic analysis is carried through of the recordings, the measurements are subjected to statistical treatment, and the results are analyzed from the point of view of their role in the manifestation of Li…
The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs
The Kalevala, or runic, songs is a tradition at least a few thousand years old. It was shared by Finns, Estonians and other speakers of smaller Baltic-Finnic languages inhabiting the eastern side of the Baltic Sea in North-Eastern Europe. This book offers a combined perspective of a musicologist and a linguist to the structure of the runic songs. Archival recordings of the songs originating mostly from the first half of the 20th century were used…
Estonian Prosody
Successive translations as source of evidence for linguistic change
The paper presents a linguistic analysis of six Estonian translations of Friedrich Schiller 's poem An die Freude/' The translations span the years 1813-1959. Particular attention is directed to the choice of Estonian equivalents to German grammatical features that are absent in Estonian: definite and indefinite articles, the rendering of the future tense, and the expression of the passive voice. The successive translations show a gradual decreas…
Trade-off between quantity and stress in Estonian folksong performance
This paper is concerned with the issue of how speech and music prosodies are matched to each other in folksong performance. We consider speech and music to be two more or less autonomous structures which both are required to be accommodated in singing performance according to a certain modus vivendi. Under some conditions, this necessity for coexistence may lead to a conflict between the two media which, as we believe, is caused by the different …
Lost Prosodic Oppositions
This study examined the temporal structure of three recorded South-Eastern Estonian laments, a vocal style close to the old folksong tradition of the same region. A one-to-one correspondence was found between syllables in the text and notes in the melody. The duration of more than 700 syllables was measured. Syllable duration was found to vary by a considerable amount. In spoken language, the three quantities of disyllabic Estonian words are sign…
Elementarbuch der Phonetik
Bilingualism
Perception of Prominence by Estonian and English Listeners
This study deals with the perception of prominence in speech and nonspeech signals by listeners who are native speakers of Estonian or English. The stimuli consisted of repetitions of the synthetic syllable [ba] at a constant fundamental frequency (F 0 ) or signal-correlated noise tokens whose amplitude envelope matched that of the [ba]. The basic token was 400 msec in duration. Listeners heard sequences of four stimulus tokens separated by 120 m…
An acoustic analysis of the metrical structure of orally produced Lithuanian poetry
Language and Metre
Phonetic investigation of metrical structure orally produced poetry
Lectures on Language Contact
These concise lectures have been developed and refined over a period of ten years as the basis for the author's senior and first-year graduate course on language contact. They provide factual information on and interpretations of a topic of obvious sociolinguistic importance; Lehiste's more formal linguistic approach (reflected in the emphasis on the experimental testing of theories) offers the student a firm background to which sociological and …
Discrimination of duration ratios in bisyllabic tokens by native English and Estonian listeners
Nordic Prosody IV
Word and sentence prosody in Serbocroatian
The effect of vowel quality variations on stress-beat location
Discrimination of duration ratios by native English and Estonian listeners
Nordic prosody III
The phonetic realization of trochaeic meter in Latvian and Estonian
Introduction Both Latvian and Estonian folk songs employ trochaeic lines. The two languages are genetically unrelated and typologically different; yet the folk poetry produced by the two peoples has developed a similar metric structure. We believe that the suprasegmental system of a language is crystallized in the metric structure of its traditional poetry;1 would it then not follow that similar metric structures found in traditional poetry imply…
Kulturelle und Sprachliche Minderheiten in Europa
Eesti-inglise sonaraamat
The Estonian translation of the elder Edda
Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics
Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions
Labeling, discrimination and repetition of stimuli with level and changing fundamental frequency
Isochrony reconsidered
The Human Revolution [and Comments and Reply]
Except for an introductory discussion of methodology, this paper is an effort at a narrative account of the evolution of our ancestors from proto-hominoid times to the earliest fully human stage
Influence of fundamental frequency pattern on the perception of duration
Perception of Prominence by Estonian and English Listeners
This study deals with the perception of prominence in speech and nonspeech signals by listeners who are native speakers of Estonian or English. The stimuli consisted of repetitions of the synthetic syllable [ba] at a constant fundamental frequency (F 0 ) or signal-correlated noise tokens whose amplitude envelope matched that of the [ba]. The basic token was 400 msec in duration. Listeners heard sequences of four stimulus tokens separated by 120 m…
Discrimination of duration ratios by native English and Estonian listeners
The Function of Quantity in Finnish and Estonian
The purpose of this paper is to compare some aspects of the quantity systems of two related languages, Finnish and Estonian. Finnish and Estonian belong to the Balto-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric language family. They have almost identical segmental phoneme inventories. Superficially it also seems that they have very similar word structures. Often Finnish and Estonian words can be matched morpheme for morpheme or even phoneme for phoneme. Both…
Word and sentence prosody in Serbocroatian
Vowel and Speaker Identification in Natural and Synthetic Speech
The study describes the results of a listening test in which subjects were required to identify both the vowel and the sex of the speaker. Ten monophthongal American English vowels were selected: /i I ε æ a u Λ 3/. These vowels were produced by a male speaker, a female speaker, and a child. Formant values were read from spectrograms made of these vowels and used for synthesizing the same 30 vowels on a Glace-Holmes synthesizer. A third set of vow…
An instrumental study of consonant gemination
Discrimination of duration ratios in bisyllabic tokens by native English and Estonian listeners
Nordic prosody III
Labeling, discrimination and repetition of stimuli with level and changing fundamental frequency
The effect of vowel quality variations on stress-beat location
The perception of duration within sequences of four intervals
Quantity in Estonian language and poetry
The Attitudes of Bilinguals toward Their Personal Names
r HE RELATIONSHIP between a person and his name is a highly affective one. In many different ways, the name stands for the person. It symbolizes his identity, it labels him as a member of a group. Experience shows that a rose under any other name does NOT smell just as sweet. At least, this is the experience of the group of bilinguals who were the subjects of the current study.1 I should insert at this point that I have never received as much res…
A Poem in Halbdeutsch and Some Questions Concerning Substratum
Successive translations as source of evidence for linguistic change
The paper presents a linguistic analysis of six Estonian translations of Friedrich Schiller 's poem An die Freude/' The translations span the years 1813-1959. Particular attention is directed to the choice of Estonian equivalents to German grammatical features that are absent in Estonian: definite and indefinite articles, the rendering of the future tense, and the expression of the passive voice. The successive translations show a gradual decreas…
Trade-off between quantity and stress in Estonian folksong performance
This paper is concerned with the issue of how speech and music prosodies are matched to each other in folksong performance. We consider speech and music to be two more or less autonomous structures which both are required to be accommodated in singing performance according to a certain modus vivendi. Under some conditions, this necessity for coexistence may lead to a conflict between the two media which, as we believe, is caused by the different …
Lost Prosodic Oppositions
This study examined the temporal structure of three recorded South-Eastern Estonian laments, a vocal style close to the old folksong tradition of the same region. A one-to-one correspondence was found between syllables in the text and notes in the melody. The duration of more than 700 syllables was measured. Syllable duration was found to vary by a considerable amount. In spoken language, the three quantities of disyllabic Estonian words are sign…
Phonetic investigation of metrical structure orally produced poetry
The phonetic realization of trochaeic meter in Latvian and Estonian
Introduction Both Latvian and Estonian folk songs employ trochaeic lines. The two languages are genetically unrelated and typologically different; yet the folk poetry produced by the two peoples has developed a similar metric structure. We believe that the suprasegmental system of a language is crystallized in the metric structure of its traditional poetry;1 would it then not follow that similar metric structures found in traditional poetry imply…
A Handbook of Phonetics . Henry Sweet The Vowel
Acoustico-Phonetic Studies in the Intonation of Southern Swedish
Duration of Syllable Nuclei in English
This study deals with the influence of preceding and following consonants on the duration of stressed vowels and diphthongs in American English. A set of 1263 CNC words, pronounced in an identical frame by the same speaker, was analyzed spectrographically, and the influences of various classes of consonants on the duration of the nucleus were determined. The residual durational differences are analyzed as intrinsic durational characteristics, ass…
Transitions, Glides, and Diphthongs
The study deals with the formant movements associated with transitions, glides, and diphthongs in spoken American English. The transitional characteristics associated with all initial and final consonant phonemes were studied in a large sample of utterances. The rate of change of the transition from a consonant hub to the steady state vowel formant position and conversely was investigated for vowels which are commonly considered monophthongs. It …
Some Basic Considerations in the Analysis of Intonation
This paper considers some basic problems inherent in the instrumental analysis of intonation. The problems are illustrated by a detailed analysis of one intonation contour in American English. The material studied consisted of two sets of data. The first set involved 1263 sentences recorded by one speaker with determined stress and pitch patterns. The sentences consisted of 1263 CNC words produced in an identical frame, with primary stress and th…
Elemente einer akustischen Theorie der Vokalartikulation
Acoustico-Phonetic Studies in the Intonation of Southern Swedish
Accent in Serbocroatian
The Human Revolution [and Comments and Reply]
Except for an introductory discussion of methodology, this paper is an effort at a narrative account of the evolution of our ancestors from proto-hominoid times to the earliest fully human stage
Acoustical Characteristics of Selected English Consonants
Contents: Some allophones of /1/ in American English, Some allophones of /r/ in American English, Astudy of /w/ and /y/ in American English, A study of /h/ and whispered speech
Accent in Serbo-Croatian
A Poem in Halbdeutsch and Some Questions Concerning Substratum
Phonetics. Bertil Malmberg
The Function of Quantity in Finnish and Estonian
The purpose of this paper is to compare some aspects of the quantity systems of two related languages, Finnish and Estonian. Finnish and Estonian belong to the Balto-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric language family. They have almost identical segmental phoneme inventories. Superficially it also seems that they have very similar word structures. Often Finnish and Estonian words can be matched morpheme for morpheme or even phoneme for phoneme. Both…
In Honour of Daniel Jones
Consonant Quantity and Phonological Units in Estonian
Basic Course in Estonian
Consonant Quantity and Phonological Units in Estonian
Elements of General Phonetics. David Abercrombie
Beitröge zur Erforschung der serbokroatischen Prosodie
Calendar of Meetings
The committee met to review the activities of the Pan American Health Organization in the field of health and population dynamics. An analysis was made of programs of research in reproduction, contraception, and demography, efforts in evaluation, service programs, operational research, and education and training. The committee established that the PAHO should give priority to health programs related to population dynamics. The director appointed …
The Timing of Utterances and Linguistic Boundaries
This paper is concerned with the effect of morphological and syntactic boundaries on the temporal structure of spoken utterances. Two speakers produced 20 tokens each of four sets of words consisting of a mono-syllabic base form, disyllabic and trisyllabic words derived from the base by the addition of suffixes, and three short sentences in which the base form was followed by a syntactic boundary; this in turn was followed by a stressed syllable,…
‘Being’ and ‘Having’ in Estonian
English Stress and Its Modification by Intonation
Where hobgoblins spend the night
Vowel and Speaker Identification in Natural and Synthetic Speech
The study describes the results of a listening test in which subjects were required to identify both the vowel and the sex of the speaker. Ten monophthongal American English vowels were selected: /i I ε æ a u Λ 3/. These vowels were produced by a male speaker, a female speaker, and a child. Formant values were read from spectrograms made of these vowels and used for synthesizing the same 30 vowels on a Glace-Holmes synthesizer. A third set of vow…
A Handbook of Phonetics . Henry Sweet The Vowel
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