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The Influence of Boundary Depth on Phrase-Final Lengthening in Russian

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Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2015)

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As shown for many languages, words are lengthened at ends of major prosodic boundaries, and the lengthening effect is most prominent at ends of intonational phrases and utterances. However, it is not clear whether the deeper boundary—end of utterance—shows more lengthening than the other one—end of intonational phrase. The present paper is aimed at answering this question by analysing the duration of Russian stressed and post-stressed vowels in open and closed syllables in words immediately preceding prosodic boundaries; the study is based on corpus data. The results show that for most speakers boundary depth only affects the lengthening of absolute-final vowels, either stressed or post-stressed; vowels in closed or penultimate syllables show similar lengthening effect for both types of boundaries. Additionally, our data show that in Russian stressed vowels are the main carriers of final lengthening, compared to post-stressed vowels.

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    Despite the fact that pauses are often used to mark prosodic boundaries, it was not uncommon in our corpus to onserve short IP-internal pauses. Since the role of these short pauses is no quite clear so far, we decided to refrain from analysing IPs with internal pauses.

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The research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation (reserch grant # 14-18-01352).

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  1. Department of Phonetics, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Tatiana Kachkovskaia

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    Carlos Martín-Vide

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Kachkovskaia, T. (2015). The Influence of Boundary Depth on Phrase-Final Lengthening in Russian. In: Dediu, AH., Martín-Vide, C., Vicsi, K. (eds) Statistical Language and Speech Processing. SLSP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9449. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25789-1_13

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