The Analysis of Low Accentuation in Estonian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10255359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Liina Asu (0000-0003-2644-258X, University of Tartu, Estonia,, corresponding author), Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 567-588 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00238309070500040401 |
| OpenAlex | W1972932864 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 22 |
In Estonian, as in a number of other languages, the nuclear pitch accent is often low and level. This paper presents two studies of this phenomenon. The first, a phonetic analysis of carefully structured read sentences shows that low accentuation can also spread to the prenuclear accents in an intonational phrase. The resulting sentence contours are used as evidence to evaluate alternative phonological analyses of low accentuation, and H+L* is shown to account best for the data. The second study presents quantitative evidence from fundamental frequency values which supports this phonological analysis. Finally, the distribution of prenuclear pitch accents is discussed. High and low accents can co-occur in an intonational phrase, but only in patterns obeying a specific sequential constraint. A fragment of an intonational grammar for Estonian is presented capturing the observed distributional restrictions
Constraint (computer-aided design · Estonian · Grammar · Intonation (linguistics · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Optimality theory · Phonology · Phrase · Pitch accent · Prosody · Sentence · Speech recognition · Stress (linguistics · Syllable · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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| Citations per year | 0.41 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |