Effects of vowel length and syllable structure on segment duration in Dutch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4578724 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allard Jongman (0000-0002-7384-2036, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 207-222 |
| Publication date | 1998-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Phonetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-4470 • E-ISSN: 1095-8576 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1006/jpho.1998.0075 |
| OpenAlex | W2002773879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The present study concerns the durational properties of minimal Dutch word pairs containing long and short vowels as a specific case study of the mapping between phonological and phonetic notions of timing. In Experiment 1, duration of the postvocalic stop consonant in CV(:) Cen words did not vary as a function of preceding vowel length. Experiment 2 extended this finding to intervocalic stops in bisyllabic CV(:)Cen words. In Dutch, CV:Cen words contain a long vowel in syllable-final position, while CVCen words contain a short vowel followed by an arguably ambisyllabic consonant. Results from Experiment 2 indicated that the duration of the intervocalic consonant is not affected by the quantity of the preceding vowel or its differential status as a tautosyllabic or ambisyllabic consonant. An additional finding of Experiment 2 was that the duration of second-syllable [en] is inversely affected by the length of the vowel in the first syllable. Finally, Experiment 3 established that in CV(:)CCen words, C2 and, for most speakers, [en] were longer when preceded by a short vowel in the first syllable. These findings indicate that the presence of a short vowel results in a compensation of approximately 25 ms, which is distributed across the segments following that vowel. It is hypothesized that the postvocalic consonant in Experiments 1 and 2 did not participate in this compensation because the consonant is obligatory following short vowels. Thus, the factor affecting whether or not a postvocalic consonant exhibits compensatory behavior may be not so much ambisyllabicity versus tautosyllabicity but rather its obligatory versus optional status. Implications for models of phonetic and phonological timing are discussed
Acoustics · Audiology · Consonant · Duration (music) · Formant · Linguistics · Mid vowel · Physics · Relative articulation · Speech recognition · Syllable · Vowel · Vowel length · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Medicine · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech and dialogue systems
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| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 1999 - 2021 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |