Phonemic Length and Pre-Boundary Lengthening: An experimental investigation on the use of durational cues in Hungarian
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@MISC{Hockey_phonemiclength,
author = {Beth Ann Hockey and Zsuzsanna Fagyal},
title = {Phonemic Length and Pre-Boundary Lengthening: An experimental investigation on the use of durational cues in Hungarian},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The use of increased duration to signal prosodic boundaries has been demonstrated for many languages. However, a number of studies have claimed that languages in which length is phonemic do not have pre-boundary lengthening or the amount of lengthening at boundaries is not perceptually relevant . We show that for Hungarian, a language with phonemic length, there is consistent preboundary lengthening at three levels: word, syllable and phone. The amount of pre-boundary lengthening observed in our data was well within the limits of perceptible phonemic contrasts shown for short and long vowels and consonants in Hungarian. 1. INTRODUCTION Right edges of prosodic boundaries can be marked by a variety of acoustic cues. Among these features, increased segmental duration, referred to as pre-boundary length (PBL), is of particular interest, because it raises the question of how this phonetic lengthening interest with segmental length disinction. While the general consensus is that PBL is wid...
