瑓症片敥-Stress-AccentandVowelQualityinThe.pptVIP

Take Home Messages There is an intimate relationship between vocalic identity, nucleic duration and stress accent in spontaneous dialogue (at least in the Switchboard corpus) Stressed syllables tend to have significantly longer nuclei than their unstressed counterparts, consistent with the findings reported by Silipo and Greenberg in previous years’ meetings regarding the OGI Stories corpus (telephone monologues) Certain vocalic classes exhibit a far greater dynamic range in duration than others Diphthongs tend to be longer than monophthongs, BUT …. The low monophthongs ([ae], [a