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| Title | A Cross-language Corpus for Studying the Phonetics and Phonology of Prominence |
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| Authors | Bistra andreeva, William Barry and Jacques Koreman |
| Abstract | The present article describes a corpus which was collected for the cross-language comparison of prominence. In the data analysis, the acoustic-phonetic properties of words spoken with two different levels of accentuation (de-accented and nuclear accented in non-contrastive narrow-focus) are examined in question-answer elicited sentences and iterative imitations (on the syllable ‘da’) produced by Bulgarian, Russian, French, German and Norwegian speakers (3 male and 3 female per language). Normalized parameter values allow a comparison of the properties employed in differentiating the two levels of accentuation. Across the five languages there are systematic differences in the degree to which duration, f0, intensity and spectral vowel definition change with changing prominence under different focus conditions. The link with phonological differences between the languages is discussed. |
| Topics | Prosody, Corpus (Creation, Annotation, etc.) |
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A Cross-language Corpus for Studying the Phonetics and Phonology of Prominence |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ANDREEVA14.1048, author = {Bistra andreeva and William Barry and Jacques Koreman}, title = {A Cross-language Corpus for Studying the Phonetics and Phonology of Prominence}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |