Durational and tonal correlates of accent in Finnish

Suomi, Kari; Toivanen, Juhani; Ylitalo, Riikka

doi:10.1016/s0095-4470(02)00074-8

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“…The lengthening of voiced onsets in stressed syllables distinguishes stressed from unstressed syllables paralleling results from Finnish (Lehiste 1965, Suomi et al 2003, Suomi 2005 and Estonian (Lehiste 1966, Gordon 1997. As in Estonian (Gordon 1997), onset lengthening also was found to be the only property distinguishing secondary stressed from unstressed syllables.…”

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“…For example, Lehiste (1966) found that consonants in the onset of primary stressed syllables, the initial syllable, were much longer than onsets of wordmedial syllables in Estonian. Lehtonen (1970), Suomi et al (2003) and Suomi (2005) make a similar finding for Finnish. Gordon (1997) replicates Lehiste's finding on primary stressed onset lengthening in his study of Estonian and also found that most reliable acoustic correlate to secondary stress in Estonian was the lengthening of the onset consonant.…”

Section: Effects Of Stress On Consonant Durationmentioning

confidence: 58%

“…Recent work on Finnish (Suomi et al 2003) has shown that fundamental frequency is actually a property of phrase level accents and is not reliably used as a correlate of word-level stress (see Sluijter and van Heuven 1996 on the distinction between word-level stress and phrase-level accent). Syllables that carry word-level stress are eligible to receive phrase-level accents.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Suomi et al 2003, Suomi 2005, Suomi 2007, Myers and Hansen 2007, Nakai et al 2008. Relatively understudied from a quantitative phonetic standpoint has been the closely related language of Ingrian (Porkka 1885, Sovijärvi 1944, Laanest 1966, Palander 1987) spoken along coastal areas of Northern Russia.…”

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Prominence and Gemination in Ingrian

Gordon¹

2009

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This paper reports results of an acoustic study of stress and length patterns in Ingrian, a Finnic language closely related to Finnish. Primary stressed syllables were found to have higher fundamental frequency than both secondary stressed and unstressed syllables.Intensity and duration played a limited role in signaling stress. In keeping with published descriptions, consonants preceding a long vowel in the second syllable of the primary stress foot were lengthened. The lengthening effect was greater in consonants targeted by the process of primary gemination (yleisgeminaatio), i.e. those in CVCVV feet in disyllabic words, than those affected by other gemination phenomena applying in Ingrian.

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Prominence and Gemination in Ingrian

Gordon¹

2009

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“…muta [muta] 'mud', muuta [mu:ta] 'another (partitive)', mutta [mut:a] 'but', mutaa [muta:] 'mud (partitive)', muuttaa [mu:t:a:] 'to change'). Primary stress always falls on the first syllable, but is less prominent than in Germanic languages, with duration being the only confirmed phonetic cue so far (Iivonen, 1998;Suomi et al, 2003;Ylitalo, 2009, p. 16;Arnhold, 2014a, pp. 130-139).…”

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Modelling the Interplay of Multiple Cues in Prosodic Focus Marking

Arnhold

Kyröläinen

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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Focus marking is an important function of prosody in many languages. While many phonological accounts concentrate on fundamental frequency (F 0 ), studies have established several additional cues to information structure. However, the relationship between these cues is rarely investigated. We simultaneously analyzed five prosodic cues to focus-F 0 range, word duration, intensity, voice quality, the location of the F 0 maximum, and the occurrence of pauses-in a set of 947 simple Subject Verb Object (SVO) sentences uttered by 17 native speakers of Finnish. Using random forest and generalized additive mixed modelling, we investigated the systematicity of prosodic focus marking, the importance of each cue as a predictor, and their functional shape. Results indicated a highly consistent differentiation between narrow focus and givenness, marked by at least F 0 range, word duration, intensity, and the location of the F 0 maximum, with F 0 range being the most important predictor. No cue had a linear relationship with focus condition. To account for the simultaneous significance of several predictors, we argue that these findings support treating multiple prosodic cues to focus in Finnish as correlates of prosodic phrasing. Thus, we suggest that prosodic phrasing, having multiple functions, is also marked with multiple cues to enhance communicative efficiency.

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Lexical Stress

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The Handbook of Speech Perception

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Durational and tonal correlates of accent in Finnish

Cited by 87 publications

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Prominence and Gemination in Ingrian

Prominence and Gemination in Ingrian

Modelling the Interplay of Multiple Cues in Prosodic Focus Marking

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