The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages.
final lengthening
language documentation
prosodic typology
word duration
Journal
Linguistics vanguard : multimodal online journal
ISSN: 2199-174X
Titre abrégé: Linguist Vanguard
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101660926
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Jan 2021
01 Jan 2021
Historique:
received:
27
11
2019
accepted:
02
04
2020
entrez:
26
7
2022
pubmed:
9
2
2021
medline:
9
2
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Words in utterance-final positions are often pronounced more slowly than utterance-medial words, as previous studies on individual languages have shown. This paper provides a systematic cross-linguistic comparison of relative durations of final and penultimate words in utterances in terms of the degree to which such words are lengthened. The study uses time-aligned corpora from 10 genealogically, areally, and culturally diverse languages, including eight small, under-resourced, and mostly endangered languages, as well as English and Dutch. Clear effects of lengthening words at the end of utterances are found in all 10 languages, but the degrees of lengthening vary. Languages also differ in the relative durations of words that precede utterance-final words. In languages with on average short words in terms of number of segments, these penultimate words are also lengthened. This suggests that lengthening extends backwards beyond the final word in these languages, but not in languages with on average longer words. Such typological patterns highlight the importance of examining prosodic phenomena in diverse language samples beyond the small set of majority languages most commonly investigated so far.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35880210
doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063
pii: lingvan-2019-0063
pmc: PMC9125794
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
20190063Informations de copyright
© 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
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