Stress and syllable structure durations in Greek

Botinis, Antonis; Iliadi, Anastasia; Liontos, Michalis; Nirgianaki, Elina

doi:10.36505/exling-2012/05/0007/000213

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“…vowel nucleus > onset consonant > coda consonant. On the other hand, the lengthening effect of lexical stress application on onset consonant and vowel nucleus as well as the absence of any lengthening effect of focus application on any syllable constituent have been corroborated (Botinis 1989, Fourakis, Botinis, Katsaiti 1999.…”

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confidence: 86%

Open vs. closed syllable phonology and temporal production in Greek

Chaida¹,

Dimoula²,

Magoula³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of International Conferences of Experimental Linguistics

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The present experimental study examines syllable constituent durations as a function of syllable structure, lexical stress and focus. In accordance with a production experiment, the results indicate that both syllable structure and lexical stress have significant effects on syllable constituent durations but not focus. Syllable structure has a compensatory temporal effect, according to which open syllables have longer nucleus vowels but shorter onset consonants in comparison to closed syllables. Lexical stress has a lengthening effect on all syllable constituents, in the order nucleus vowel > onset consonant > coda consonant. Onset consonants and nucleus vowels showed significant interactions between syllable type and lexical stress, which indicates extensive variability of segment duration in accordance with prosodic structure and prosodic context of spoken utterances.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Open vs. closed syllable phonology and temporal production in Greek

Chaida¹,

Dimoula²,

Magoula³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of International Conferences of Experimental Linguistics

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“…Recent experimental studies have shown that stressed and unstressed vowels in Standard Modern Greek show consistent differences not only in amplitude, but also in duration. (Botinis, 1989, Arvaniti, 2000, Fourakis et al, 1999. Contrary to these results, Pernot (1907) found that in Chios Greek rising tone was more consistent correlate of stress than duration or amplitude.…”

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Acoustic model of stress in standard Greek and Greek dialects

Loukina¹

2019

ExLing 2008: Proceedings of 2nd Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics,

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The paper compares acoustic models which predict the position of stress in bisyllabic words in Greek varieties. It is shown that while in Thessalian Greek ratios of peak amplitude and F1 are the best predictors of stress, in Athenian and Cypriot Greek these are ratios of durations and f 0. Furthermore in Cypriot Greek morphological category of the token affects the acoustic prominence of the stressed vowel.

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“…Lexical stress production in statements may be associated with a tonal rise in prefocus position whereas, in focus position, a local tonal expansion is followed by a postfocus tonal flattening (e.g. Botinis 1989). In polar questions, on the other hand, there is no tonal expansion of focus asignment but a rise-falling shape at the right edge (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intonation and polar questions in Greek revisited

Botinis¹,

Chaida²,

Nikolaenkova³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of International Conferences of Experimental Linguistics

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This is a study of intonation and polar questions in Greek. The results indicate that there is a rising-falling tonal structure at the right edge of polar questions. However, the alignment of both tonal rising and tonal peak depend on the position of focus as well as lexical stress. Thus, in the context of initial and medial focus productions, the tonal rising is aligned with the onset of the final stressed syllable whereas, in the context of final focus production, the tonal rising is aligned with the onset of the last syllable regardless of the position of lexical stress. On the other hand, the tonal peak is aligned with the post-stressed syllable in the context of initial and medial focus productions whereas, in the context of final focus production, the tonal peak is aligned with the nucleus of the last syllable. However, the earlier the lexical stress production, the earlier the tonal rising as well as the tonal peak in all focus contexts.

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Stress and syllable structure durations in Greek

Cited by 10 publications

References 1 publication

Open vs. closed syllable phonology and temporal production in Greek

Open vs. closed syllable phonology and temporal production in Greek

Acoustic model of stress in standard Greek and Greek dialects

Intonation and polar questions in Greek revisited

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