The phonetics of stress in Greek

Arvaniti, Amalia

doi:10.1075/jgl.1.03arv

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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).…”

Section: Knaus El Shanawany Wiese Knaus Wiese Janßen Rothermichmentioning

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Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

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Panagaki

Andrikopoulou

et al. 2016

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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confidence: 99%

Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

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Panagaki

Andrikopoulou

et al. 2016

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…In recent years, there have been a number of acoustic studies of stress in Greek, however, their findings are not consistent with regard to the defining properties of stress in this language. Thus, we find the claim in some studies that greater duration is a crucial stress cue (e.g., Dauer 1980;Botinis 1989;Arvaniti 2000;Fourakis et al 1999;Nicolaidis and Rispoli 2005;Nicolaidis and Sfakianaki 2007;Baltazani 2007). Vowel centralization is also presented as a significant property in a number of studies, with unstressed vowels being more centralized than stressed ones (e.g., Fourakis et al 1999;Nicolaidis and Rispoli 2005;Baltazani 2007;Nicolaidis and Sfakianaki 2007).…”

Section: Acoustic Properties Of Stress In Modern Greekmentioning

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Compounds in Modern Greek

Athanasopoulou¹,

Vogel²

2015

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

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In the present study, the acoustic properties associated with stress in compounds in Modern Greek are investigated. Specifically, the claim that Greek compounds consist of a single Phonological Word is tested since it has been argued, based on impressionistic observations, that compounds only contain a single stressed syllable. This claim about Greek is in contrast with the pattern observed in many other languages, including English, where compounds consist of multiple Phonological Words each of which retains its own word stress. Data from 6 native speakers producing 10 adjective-noun phrases and corresponding novel compounds are examined. The analysis focuses on F0 properties given that a recent study of prominence patterns in Greek has demonstrated that F0 is the main property of stress; however, data on duration, intensity and vowel centralization, the other properties commonly associated with stress are also presented. The results provide systematic confirmation of the impressionistic claims about Greek compounds having only a single stress in that the acoustic properties of the stressed vowel of the first word of compounds found to be reduced compared to the corresponding word of phrases. The second word in both constructions was similar in all measurements.

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“…Botinis (1989) and Arvaniti (2000) showed that stressed vowels have higher amplitude than unstressed vowels and are 30% to 40% longer. However, neither duration nor amplitude are consistently greater in stressed versus unstressed vowels and syllables.…”

Section: Lexical Stress In Greekmentioning

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“…However, neither duration nor amplitude are consistently greater in stressed versus unstressed vowels and syllables. Accordingly, it is argued that amplitude integral, a measure that combines the effect of amplitude and duration, is a more representative correlate of stress in Greek (Arvaniti, 2000;2007) than any one single measure.…”

Section: Lexical Stress In Greekmentioning

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Perceptual and acoustic analysis of lexical stress in Greek speakers with dysarthria

Papakyritsis

Müller

2014

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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The study reported in this paper investigated the abilities of Greek speakers with dysarthria to signal lexical stress at the single word level. Three speakers with dysarthria and two unimpaired control participants were recorded completing a repetition task of a list of words consisting of minimal pairs of Greek disyllabic words contrasted by lexical stress location only. Fourteen listeners were asked to determine the attempted stress location for each word pair. Acoustic analyses of duration and intensity ratios, both within and across words, were undertaken to identify possible acoustic correlates of the listeners' judgments concerning stress location.Acoustic and perceptual data indicate that while each participant with dysarthria in this study had some difficulty in signaling stress unambiguously, the pattern of difficulty was different for each speaker. Further, it was found that the relationship between the listeners' judgments of stress location and the acoustic data was not conclusive.

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The phonetics of stress in Greek

Cited by 28 publications

References 35 publications

Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

Compounds in Modern Greek

Perceptual and acoustic analysis of lexical stress in Greek speakers with dysarthria

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