Greek PhoneticsThe State of the Art

Arvaniti, Amalia

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“…Nevertheless, controversy exists over the precise definition of speech rhythm (e.g., Arvaniti, 2007;Dauer, 1983;Kohler, 2009), with alternative suggestions being that prosodic properties may underpin the rhythmic continuum (e.g., Arvaniti, 2007;Dauer, 1983;Prieto, del Mar Vanrell, Astruc, Payne, & Post, 2012), or that rhythm may involve perceptual grouping on the part of the listener (e.g., Arvaniti, 1994;Dauer, 1983;Lee & Todd, 2004;Lehiste, 1977). Notwithstanding this controversy, the evidence is considerable that infant speech perception quickly tunes into the rhythm of native language and that such effects persist in adult speech perception (e.g., Kim, Davis, & Cutler, 2008;Mehler, Dommergues, Frauenfelder, & Segui, 1981;Nazzi, Bertoncini, & Mehler, 1998;Nazzi, Iakimova, Bertoncini, Fredonie, & Alcantara, 2006).…”

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Phonological development in relation to native language and literacy: Variations on a theme in six alphabetic orthographies

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This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with colleagues.Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. b s t r a c tPhonological development was assessed in six alphabetic orthographies (English, French, Greek, Icelandic, Portuguese and Spanish) at the beginning and end of the first year of reading instruction. The aim was to explore contrasting theoretical views regarding: the question of the availability of phonology at the outset of learning to read (Study 1); the influence of orthographic depth on the pace of phonological development during the transition to literacy (Study 2); and the impact of literacy instruction (Study 3). Results from 242 children did not reveal a consistent sequence of development as performance varied according to task demands and language. Phonics instruction appeared more influential than orthographic depth in the emergence of an early meta-phonological capacity to manipulate phonemes, and preliminary indications were that cross-linguistic variation was associated with speech rhythm more than factors such as syllable complexity. The implications of the outcome for current models of phonological development are discussed.

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Phonological development in relation to native language and literacy: Variations on a theme in six alphabetic orthographies

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“…Beyond this constraint there are no known phonological restrictions as to which vowels or syllable types may carry stress, so stress is phonologically unpredictable (making Greek a language with a lexical accent system; Revithiadou, 1999). Stressed vowels stand out phonetically by being longer and louder than unstressed vowels (Arvaniti, 2000(Arvaniti, , 2007. Unstressed vowels exhibit only limited centralization (i.e., tendency to neutral articulation) and, crucially, there is no phonological vowel reduction associated with lack of stress (Arvaniti, 2007;Fourakis, Botinis, & Katsaiti, 1999).…”

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“…In other European languages, such as Spanish (Ortega-Llebaria & Prieto, 2007) and Greek (Arvaniti, 2007;Fourakis, Botinis & Katsaiti, 1999), stress is only weakly associated with segmental quality. This permits manipulation of stress patterns independently of segmental constituency to uncover effects specific to stress, as we attempt to do in this study in the Greek language.…”

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“…Similarly, findings from auditory word recognition are difficult to interpret because stress patterns are necessarily confounded with the acoustic properties that signify them, so it Greek combines all these desirable properties. It is a free-stress language in which every word with two or more syllables carries a single stress (Arvaniti, 2007).…”

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Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

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Panagaki

Andrikopoulou

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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This study addresses the lexical representation of stress in a series of five intra-modal and cross-modal priming experiments in the Greek language using lexical decision tasks with auditory and visual targets. Three-syllable primes and targets were matched in first syllable segments, length, and other variables, and differed segmentally in the second and third syllable. Primes matched or mismatched targets in stress, which was placed on the penultimate or antepenultimate syllable. There was no evidence for stress priming in either accuracy or latency of responses to either words or pseudowords in any of these experiments, either intra-modally or cross-modally. In contrast, a control fragment priming experiment using only the first two syllables of the primes produced a significant effect of stress congruence for words but not for pseudowords. The results are interpreted in the context of previous findings in the literature as arising from lexical activation rather than from matching stress patterns. Overall, findings are consistent with lexical representations including stress information that is inseparable from segmental specification, rather than with abstract representations of metrical templates.

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“…The diphones used for synthesis came from the stressed syllable of the Greek name ['sasa] recorded utterance-initially in a sentence and elicited from one male and one female speaker of Standard Greek (different from those who recorded the stimuli). Greek diphones were used for synthesis to ensure a lack of bias for the English-speaking listeners: the Greek [s] and [a] are sufficiently different from their English counterparts (Arvaniti 2007) that the stimuli would sound unfamiliar to the participants and thus would make the premise of the experiments, namely that foreign languages were involved, more plausible.…”

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The role of rhythm class, speaking rate, and F0 in language discrimination

Arvaniti

Rodriquez

2013

Laboratory Phonology

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Abstract:The division of languages into stress-, syllable-, and mora-timing is said to be supported by experiments showing that languages are discriminated only if they belong to different rhythm classes, a distinction said to be reflected in the duration and variability of consonantal and vocalic intervals (timing). The role of rhythm classes in discrimination is tested here along with the alternative that discrimination is due to speaking rate and F 0 differences and is independent of rhythm class. Five AAX experiments with English as context (AA) and Polish, Danish, Spanish, Greek, or Korean as test (X) were conducted using the sasasa transform and modifying F 0 and speaking rate, so as to compare responses to stimuli that retained the original speaking rate and F 0 of each language and stimuli that were stripped of this information (speaking rate, F 0 , or both) while retaining their timing. Discrimination was possible both across and within rhythm classes when speaking rates differed between context and test but was largely impossible once speaking rate differences were eliminated. F 0 also played a significant if less consistent role in discrimination. The changes in responses associated with speaking rate and F 0 indicate that language discrimination arises from interactions between prosodic factors and that timing contributes but little. Consequently the results cast doubt both on the ecological validity of the sasasa transform, which brings timing to the fore while eliminating F 0 modulation, and on the rhythm class typology said to be reflected in timing distinctions.

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Greek PhoneticsThe State of the Art

Cited by 83 publications

References 158 publications

Phonological development in relation to native language and literacy: Variations on a theme in six alphabetic orthographies

Phonological development in relation to native language and literacy: Variations on a theme in six alphabetic orthographies

Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

The role of rhythm class, speaking rate, and F0 in language discrimination

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