TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of stress and speech rate on vowel quality in Catalan and Spanish
AU - Nadeu, Marianna
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This study examines the effects of lexical stress on vowel quality in Iberian Spanish and Central Catalan and the relationship between phonetic variation caused by stress and speech rate. For Catalan, both absence of stress and fast speech rate result in a shrunken vowel space. For Spanish, the effects of speech rate are in line with those found for Catalan. Yet, unstressed vowels are characterized by lower F1 than their stressed counterparts. Results are discussed in the light of the Hyperarticulation Hypothesis and the Sonority Expansion Hypothesis.
AB - This study examines the effects of lexical stress on vowel quality in Iberian Spanish and Central Catalan and the relationship between phonetic variation caused by stress and speech rate. For Catalan, both absence of stress and fast speech rate result in a shrunken vowel space. For Spanish, the effects of speech rate are in line with those found for Catalan. Yet, unstressed vowels are characterized by lower F1 than their stressed counterparts. Results are discussed in the light of the Hyperarticulation Hypothesis and the Sonority Expansion Hypothesis.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84878412286
SN - 9781622767595
T3 - 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
SP - 1394
EP - 1397
BT - 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
T2 - 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
Y2 - 9 September 2012 through 13 September 2012
ER -