Bistra Andreeva
Biographic Data
| ID | 132123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bistra Andreeva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bistra |
| FAMILY NAME | Andreeva |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREEVA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saarland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2774-1346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contrast Maintenance in the Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish Unstressed Vowels of Heritage Bilinguals
We present an acoustic-phonetic investigation of vowels in the spontaneous speech of heritage speakers of Judeo-Spanish ( /ɛ a ɔ i u/ ) and Bulgarian ( /ɛ a ɔ i ɤ u/ ), alongside monolingual Bulgarians’ vowels. Formant frequencies and duration were analyzed for 9,498 vowel tokens. Linear mixed models revealed no spectral differences between Judeo-Spanish and Bulgarian stressed vowels, pointing to shared targets in the bilinguals’ grammars. Unstre…
Vocative Intonation in Language Contact
The present study investigates the prosodic realization of calling contours by bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and (Bulgarian) Judeo-Spanish and monolingual speakers of Bulgarian in a discourse completion task across three pragmatic contexts: (i) neutral (routine) context-calling a child from afar to come in for dinner; (ii) positive context-calling a child from afar to get a present; and (iii) negative (or urgent) context-calling a child from af…
The influence of L1 prosody on Bulgarian-accented German and English
L1 Influences on Bulgarian-Accented German
This study investigates the L1 influence on the use of accentual patterns, choice of prenuclear pitch accent types and their realization on L2 prosody. We use Mennen's LILt model as a framework for our analysis. We recorded ten Bulgarian female speakers of German and ten female native German speakers who read Aesop's fable The North Wind and the Sun. We found that the tendency for the Bulgarian native speakers to use more pitch accents than Germa…
Dynamic Formant Trajectories in German Read Speech
Phonetic structures expand temporally and spectrally when they are difficult to predict from their context. To some extent, effects of predictability are modulated by prosodic structure. So far, studies on the impact of contextual predictability and prosody on phonetic structures have neglected the dynamic nature of the speech signal. This study investigates the impact of predictability and prominence on the dynamic structure of the first and sec…
Central and Eastern Europe
The languages of Central and Eastern Europe addressed in this chapter form a typologically divergent collection that includes Slavic (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, pluricentric Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian), Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian), Finno-Ugric (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian), and Romance (Romanian). Their prosodic features and structures have been explored to various depths, …
Cross-language similarities and differences in spontaneous speech patterns
Quasi-spontaneous dialogues from six languages which, according to recent discussion of rhythmic types, belong to three rhythmic groups - Russian and Bulgarian as 'stress-timed', Italian and Greek as 'syllable-timed' and Polish and Czech as an intermediate 'mixed' type - were examined for the following segmental reduction phenomena: reduction of consonant clusters, weakening of consonant articulation, residual properties from elided consonants in…
Cross-language similarities and differences in spontaneous speech patterns
Quasi-spontaneous dialogues from six languages which, according to recent discussion of rhythmic types, belong to three rhythmic groups - Russian and Bulgarian as 'stress-timed', Italian and Greek as 'syllable-timed' and Polish and Czech as an intermediate 'mixed' type - were examined for the following segmental reduction phenomena: reduction of consonant clusters, weakening of consonant articulation, residual properties from elided consonants in…
Vocative Intonation in Language Contact
The present study investigates the prosodic realization of calling contours by bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and (Bulgarian) Judeo-Spanish and monolingual speakers of Bulgarian in a discourse completion task across three pragmatic contexts: (i) neutral (routine) context-calling a child from afar to come in for dinner; (ii) positive context-calling a child from afar to get a present; and (iii) negative (or urgent) context-calling a child from af…
L1 Influences on Bulgarian-Accented German
This study investigates the L1 influence on the use of accentual patterns, choice of prenuclear pitch accent types and their realization on L2 prosody. We use Mennen's LILt model as a framework for our analysis. We recorded ten Bulgarian female speakers of German and ten female native German speakers who read Aesop's fable The North Wind and the Sun. We found that the tendency for the Bulgarian native speakers to use more pitch accents than Germa…
Cross-language similarities and differences in spontaneous speech patterns
Quasi-spontaneous dialogues from six languages which, according to recent discussion of rhythmic types, belong to three rhythmic groups - Russian and Bulgarian as 'stress-timed', Italian and Greek as 'syllable-timed' and Polish and Czech as an intermediate 'mixed' type - were examined for the following segmental reduction phenomena: reduction of consonant clusters, weakening of consonant articulation, residual properties from elided consonants in…
Central and Eastern Europe
The languages of Central and Eastern Europe addressed in this chapter form a typologically divergent collection that includes Slavic (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, pluricentric Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian), Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian), Finno-Ugric (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian), and Romance (Romanian). Their prosodic features and structures have been explored to various depths, …
Dynamic Formant Trajectories in German Read Speech
Phonetic structures expand temporally and spectrally when they are difficult to predict from their context. To some extent, effects of predictability are modulated by prosodic structure. So far, studies on the impact of contextual predictability and prosody on phonetic structures have neglected the dynamic nature of the speech signal. This study investigates the impact of predictability and prominence on the dynamic structure of the first and sec…
The influence of L1 prosody on Bulgarian-accented German and English
L1 Influences on Bulgarian-Accented German
This study investigates the L1 influence on the use of accentual patterns, choice of prenuclear pitch accent types and their realization on L2 prosody. We use Mennen's LILt model as a framework for our analysis. We recorded ten Bulgarian female speakers of German and ten female native German speakers who read Aesop's fable The North Wind and the Sun. We found that the tendency for the Bulgarian native speakers to use more pitch accents than Germa…
Vocative Intonation in Language Contact
The present study investigates the prosodic realization of calling contours by bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and (Bulgarian) Judeo-Spanish and monolingual speakers of Bulgarian in a discourse completion task across three pragmatic contexts: (i) neutral (routine) context-calling a child from afar to come in for dinner; (ii) positive context-calling a child from afar to get a present; and (iii) negative (or urgent) context-calling a child from af…
Contrast Maintenance in the Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish Unstressed Vowels of Heritage Bilinguals
We present an acoustic-phonetic investigation of vowels in the spontaneous speech of heritage speakers of Judeo-Spanish ( /ɛ a ɔ i u/ ) and Bulgarian ( /ɛ a ɔ i ɤ u/ ), alongside monolingual Bulgarians’ vowels. Formant frequencies and duration were analyzed for 9,498 vowel tokens. Linear mixed models revealed no spectral differences between Judeo-Spanish and Bulgarian stressed vowels, pointing to shared targets in the bilinguals’ grammars. Unstre…
Linguistics (7 works) · Bulgarian (5 works) · History (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Prosody (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works)