Bilingualism and the pronunciation of Latvian intonations

Bond, Dzintra; Markus, Dace; Stockmal, Verna

doi:10.1080/01629778.2015.1126851

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“…In Leivu CV'V-words, the average duration of syllable nuclei is on average longer than in CVV-words, but there is variation depending on syllable and C2 type. In this respect, Leivu differs from Latvian and Livonian where long vowels in broken tone words have been found to be shorter than in words without broken tone (Kariņš 1996, Bond, Markus & Stockmal 2016, Teras & Tuisk 2009, Tuisk 2015.…”

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Broken tone in Leivu CV’V-words

Teras

2021

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Leivu is one of the South Estonian dialects historically spoken in eastern Latvia and influenced by Latvian. One likely influence is broken tone or stød, which was developing in Leivu mainly as a result of the loss of /h/ in first quantity degree words. The aim of this study is to determine what characterises the pronunciation of CV’V-words (lost intervocalic /h/) and differentiates these from CVV-words. Sound durations, F0 and intensity contours of the syllable rhyme were analysed. Vowel duration in CV’V-words tends to be longer than in CVV-words. In CV’V-words, a short drop in intensity can occur between two identical or two different vowels, with the first vowel often being longer than the second one. In some cases, the second vowel in CV’V words was laryngealised. In CV’V-words, an early F0 turning point where F0 starts to fall occurs more consistently than in CVV-words where F0 can also be rising. Kokkuvõte. Pire Teras: Katketoon leivu CV’V-sõnades. Leivu on üks lõunaeesti murretest, mida räägiti Ida-Lätis ja mida mõjutas läti keel. Üks neist mõjudest on tõenäoliselt katketoon, mis oli tekkimas peamiselt esmavältelistes sõnades /h/ kao tulemusel. Liivi keeleski on katketooni kujunemise üheks põhjuseks peetud just /h/ kadu. Selle töö eesmärk on välja selgitada, mis iseloomustab leivu /h/-kaoliste CV’V-sõnade hääldust ja mis eristab neid kolmandavältelistest CVV-sõnadest. Analüüsiti häälikukestusi, põhitooni- ja intensiivsuskontuure. Vokaalikestus on leivu CV’V-sõnades veidi pikem kui CVV-sõnades. CV’V-sõnades võib toimuda intensiivsuse langus ja tõus või järsk intensiivsuse langus nii kahe ühesuguse kui ka erineva vokaali vahel: esimene vokaal on enamasti kestuselt pikem kui teine. Ka CVV-sõnade hilistekkelistes diftongides on esimene osis sageli pikem kui teine. Mõnel juhul larüngaliseerub CV’V-sõnades silbituuma lõpuosa. Põhitoonikontuuris on CV’V-sõnades palju järjekindlamalt varane pöördepunkt ja langev põhitoon kui CVV-sõnades, kus tuleb ette ka hilise pöördepunktiga tõusvat põhitooni.

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Broken tone in Leivu CV’V-words

Teras

2021

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“…In particular, in some dialects the tonal contrast has been lost whereas the glottalization feature is retained as lexically contrastive [1]. Bilingual Russian-Latvian speakers for whom Latvian is not the dominant language do not appear to make either lexical contrast [4].…”

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Interaction between word accent and intonational boundaries in Latvian

Hualde¹,

Riad²

2018

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018)

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In Latvian, primary stressed long syllables of content words bear either a level or a falling pitch contour, due to a lexical tonal accent contrast. In this paper we examine the interaction between word accents and intonational boundary tones in Latvian. We assume that intonational contours result from the combination of word-level and utterance-level tones and consider how the word accents are realized in utterances with different pragmatic values, which are in part expressed by choice of boundary tone (L%, H%, HL%). The main result of our investigation is that the existence of a lexical tonal contrast in Latvian introduces some incompatibilities between accentual melodies and intonational boundary tones (e.g. a lexical falling contour on a phrase-final syllable is incompatible with an intonational rise on the same syllable), which are resolved in different ways. Tentatively, we conclude that one resolution is to alter the tonal values of the word accents, in some instances leading to the potential positional neutralization of the contrast. Another strategy is assimilation between boundary tone and word accent. Which tone assimilates to which is left as an open question here.

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Bilingualism and the pronunciation of Latvian intonations

Cited by 2 publications

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Broken tone in Leivu CV’V-words

Broken tone in Leivu CV’V-words

Interaction between word accent and intonational boundaries in Latvian

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