Structural and dialectal effects on pitch peak alignment in two varieties of British English
Structural and dialectal effects on pitch peak alignment in two varieties of British English
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结构和方言对两种英式英语音调峰值对齐的影响
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10.1016/j.wocn.2008.11.001
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2009
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R. Stackhouse
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D. Ladd;A. Schepman;Laurence White;L. Quarmby;R. Stackhouse
我们报告了三个实验，基于测试句子朗读，句子位置和语音元音长度的影响，在苏格兰标准英语（SSE）和英国南部英语（RP）的口音相关的f0峰对齐。一个实验处理核前重音峰，另两个实验处理核重音峰。三项发现证实了最近关于其他几种欧洲语言的文献报道。首先，正如荷兰人[拉德，D.R.，门嫩岛& Schepman，A.（2000年）的第10/2000号决议。荷兰语升调口音中峰值对齐的语音条件作用。Journal of the Acoustical Society of America，107，2685-2696]，在语音学上短元音的核前峰的排列晚于长元音，并且这种效果不能用实际的元音持续时间来解释，但似乎反映了音节结构。第二，核峰比核前峰更早对齐（相对于重音元音），并且，如在荷兰语中[Schepman，A.，利克利河，&拉德，D.R.（2006年）。元音长度和“正确的上下文”对荷兰语核口音对齐的影响。Journal of Phonetics，34，1-28]，音节结构的影响似乎在核重音中不存在;相反，它们的排列受到重音音节是否处于话语结尾位置的强烈影响。第三，在一些其他的研究中，我们发现的语言或语言品种之间的语音细节的差异的证据：核和prenuclear峰值对齐后，在SSE比RP，核峰值似乎是对齐早在英语比荷兰语。
We report three experiments, based on test sentences read aloud, on the influence of sentence position and phonological vowel length on the alignment of accent-related f0peaks in Scottish Standard English (SSE) and Southern British English (RP). One experiment deals with prenuclear accent peaks and the other two with nuclear accent peaks. Three findings confirm reports in the recent literature on several other European languages. First, as has been reported for Dutch [Ladd, D.R., Mennen, I., & Schepman, A. (2000). Phonological conditioning of peak alignment in rising pitch accents in Dutch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107, 2685–2696], the alignment of prenuclear peaks is later with phonologically short vowels than with long ones, and the effect cannot be explained by actual vowel duration but appears to reflect syllable structure. Second, nuclear peaks are aligned much earlier (relative to the accented vowel) than prenuclear peaks, and, as in Dutch [Schepman, A., Lickley, R., & Ladd, D.R. (2006). Effects of vowel length and ‘right context’ on the alignment of Dutch nuclear accents. Journal of Phonetics, 34, 1–28], the effect of syllable structure appears to be absent in nuclear accents; instead, their alignment is strongly influenced by whether the accented syllable is in utterance-final position. Third, as in a number of other studies, we find evidence for differences of phonetic detail between languages or language varieties: both nuclear and prenuclear peaks are aligned later in SSE than in RP, and nuclear peaks appear to be aligned earlier in English than in Dutch.