Predicting Hungarian sound durations for continuous speech

Olaszy, Gábor

doi:10.1556/aling.49.2002.3-4.5

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“…Crucially, the duration increases were not distributed equally throughout the syllable: onset consonants did not differ significantly across phrasal positions, but rhymes were somewhat longer when phrasefinal, and coda consonants were significantly longer when phrase-final. The authors conclude that while some phrase-final lengthening occurs on the rhyme, most of it occurs on the final consonant, a finding that is entirely consistent with our characterization of phonetic lengthening as a strictly local process (for related work on Hungarian segmental durations, see Gósy 2001;Olaszy 2000Olaszy , 2002 and the papers in Gósy 1991).…”

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Lengthened affricates as a test case for the phonetics–phonology interface

Pycha¹

2009

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Many phonetic and phonological processes resemble one another, which has led some researchers to suggest that phonetics and phonology are essentially the same. This study compares phonetic and phonological processes of consonant lengthening by analyzing duration measurements collected from Hungarian speakers (n = 14). Affricates, which crucially possess a two-part structure, were placed in target positions. Results show that affricates regularly undergo phonetic lengthening at phrase boundaries, and the affected portion of the affricate is always that which lies closer to the boundary. Affricates also regularly undergo phonological lengthening when next to a geminating suffix, but the affected portion of the affricate is always the stop closure. Thus, while phonetic lengthening observes a strict respect for locality, phonological lengthening does not, and we conclude that the two processes are in fact quite different from one another.

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Lengthened affricates as a test case for the phonetics–phonology interface

Pycha¹

2009

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…An early study of 350 short utterances produced by five different speakers found that both short and long vowels were shortest in initial position, intermediate in medial position and longest in final position [5], although the materials confounded the effects of syllable structure, word position and utterance position. A single-speaker study comparing whole-word durations in utterance-initial, medial and final positions showed considerable final lengthening for monosyllables [8]. The amount of lengthening was attenuated according to word length, but still significant for pentasyllables.…”

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The long and the short and the final: phonological vowel length and prosodic timing in Hungarian

White,

Mády

2008

Speech Prosody 2008

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The phonological vowel and consonant length distinctions in languages such as Hungarian may provide a constraint on the degree to which prosodic structure can influence speech segment duration. Here we show that, like many other languages, Hungarian does mark prosodic structure with durational variation, in particular, utterance-final lengthening.There is an influence of phonological vowel length on the locus of utterance-final lengthening: long and short vowels are lengthened in absolute-final syllables; long vowels are also lengthened in penultimate syllables. Lengthening within pitchaccented words, observed in languages such as English, appears absent, however. Furthermore, we do not find support for the inverse relationship between word length and stressed vowel duration suggested by previous studies.

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“…In addition, the abstract and physical formulations differ in the predictions they make for gemination relative to other lengthening processes. Therefore, the production studies also compare gemination with another process that increases duration, phrase-final lengthening (for related work on Hungarian segmental duration, see Kassai 1979, 1982, Olaszy 1994, 2000, 2002, Hockey & Fagyal 1999, Gósy 2001 and the papers in Gósy 1991).…”

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A test case for the phonetics–phonology interface: gemination restrictions in Hungarian

Pycha

2010

Phonology

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Despite differences in parsimony and philosophical orientation, physical and abstract theories of phonology often make similar empirical predictions. This study examines a case where they do not : gemination restrictions in Hungarian. While both types of theory correctly prohibit the lengthening of a consonant when flanked by another consonant, they make different predictions regarding both the relative duration changes within a target consonant and the applicability of restrictions to lengthening processes besides gemination. In two speechproduction experiments, these predictions are evaluated by measuring stop and frication durations within affricates. Results show that relative duration changes occur, and that the restriction holds only for gemination, supporting an abstract theory. Yet results also indicate that gemination exhibits sensitivity to inherent durational differences between affricates, providing some support for a physical theory. Thus I argue that an adequate theory of phonology must include abstract constituents, alongside a limited, principled set of physical landmarks. * I am grateful to Peter Dienes, who wrote the stimulus sentences for Experiment 1.Four anonymous reviewers and the editors of Phonology provided constructive criticism, which greatly improved the paper. Audiences provided useful feedback at

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Predicting Hungarian sound durations for continuous speech

Cited by 5 publications

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Lengthened affricates as a test case for the phonetics–phonology interface

Lengthened affricates as a test case for the phonetics–phonology interface

The long and the short and the final: phonological vowel length and prosodic timing in Hungarian

A test case for the phonetics–phonology interface: gemination restrictions in Hungarian

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