Prominence in Tamil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2110682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elinor Keane (0000-0001-9415-6070, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-1003 • E-ISSN: 1475-3502 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0025100306002337 |
| OpenAlex | W1978856420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper investigates whether or not there are phonetic correlates of prominence at the word level in Tamil that can be associated with word-initial stress. There is no lexically distinctive stress but there are indications in previous work - based on impressionistic judgements and experimental evidence of vowel reduction patterns - that word-initial syllables may be prominent. Sets of words containing segmentally identical syllables in different positions within the word, e.g. [nariku], [kanavu] and [w o:dina] were recorded by five speakers in a carrier phrase. The prosodic properties of the test syllables were compared to establish whether syllable position had a significant effect. No consistent results were found for either duration or loudness: their role at the word level in Tamil seems to be confined to marking intrinsic segmental and quantitative distinctions. Significant differences in F0 related to syllable position would be consistent with initial syllables bearing abstract word-level prominence. This would be marked primarily through the association of phrasal pitch accents, unaccompanied by independent differences of loudness or robust durational effects
Acoustics · Audiology · Duration (music · Linguistics · Loudness · Phrase · Speech recognition · Stress (linguistics · Syllable · Tamil · Vowel · Word (group theory · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Medicine · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Prosodic Typology II
Methodological issues in the study of word stress correlates
The stress–weight interface in metre
Acoustic correlates of word stress
Prosodic end-weight reflects phrasal stress
Rhythmic Characteristics of Colloquial and Formal Tamil
The Shape of Nuclear Falls and their Effect on the Perception of Pitch and Prominence
Stress and Non-Stress Accent
Articulatory strengthening at edges of prosodic domains
Segmental durations in the vicinity of prosodic phrase boundaries
Spectral balance as an acoustic correlate of linguistic stress
Loudness predicts prominence
The Dravidian Languages
Diglossia
Structural influences on accentual lengthening in English
The domain of accentual lengthening in American English
Timing in Tamil
Word-boundary-related duration patterns in English
Emphasis in Tamil
Durational and tonal correlates of accent in Finnish
Dravidian Linguistics
Binary Suprasegmental Features and Transformational Word-Accentuation Rules
The Segmental Phonemes of Sanskritized Tamil
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2019 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |