Prosodic Factors Influencing Vowel Reduction in Russian

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Prosodic Factors Influencing Vowel Reduction in Russian. / Кочаров, Даниил Александрович ; Качковская, Татьяна Васильевна ; Скрелин, Павел Анатольевич.

In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2019-September, 2019, p. 1956-1960.

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@article{28babb1481124489adca1c9d3d226b32,

title = "Prosodic Factors Influencing Vowel Reduction in Russian",

abstract = "Unstressed vowels in Russian are reduced in both duration and quality, but these two manifestations of vowel reduction do not have to be observed simultaneously. In order to investigate this question, we analysed the reduction pattern of words in such contexts where lengthening is induced by prosodic factors: prominence and pre-boundary lengthening. The study is based on a large corpus of read speech. The following results were obtained: (1) as expected, both contexts increase vowel duration; (2) under prosodic prominence vowels undergo less qualitative reduction, while pre-boundary lengthening has no effect on qualitative reduction; (3) additionally, it was shown that prominence mainly affects the pretonic part of the word, while pre-boundary lengthening-the post-tonic part. Thus, an increase in vowel duration does not always cause a decrease in qualitative reduction, which may serve as evidence against the idea that qualitative reduction is caused by quantitative reduction. Additionally, these results may serve as an argument for the idea that the two processes-vowel reduction and temporal organization of utterance-are autonomous.",

keywords = "Pre-boundary lengthening, Prosodic prominence, Russian, Segmental duration, Vowel reduction",

author = "Кочаров, {Даниил Александрович} and Качковская, {Татьяна Васильевна} and Скрелин, {Павел Анатольевич}",

year = "2019",

doi = "10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2918",

language = "English",

volume = "2019-September",

pages = "1956--1960",

journal = " Interspeech",

issn = "2308-457X",

note = "null ; Conference date: 15-09-2019 Through 19-09-2019",

}

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Prosodic Factors Influencing Vowel Reduction in Russian

AU - Кочаров, Даниил Александрович

AU - Качковская, Татьяна Васильевна

AU - Скрелин, Павел Анатольевич

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - Unstressed vowels in Russian are reduced in both duration and quality, but these two manifestations of vowel reduction do not have to be observed simultaneously. In order to investigate this question, we analysed the reduction pattern of words in such contexts where lengthening is induced by prosodic factors: prominence and pre-boundary lengthening. The study is based on a large corpus of read speech. The following results were obtained: (1) as expected, both contexts increase vowel duration; (2) under prosodic prominence vowels undergo less qualitative reduction, while pre-boundary lengthening has no effect on qualitative reduction; (3) additionally, it was shown that prominence mainly affects the pretonic part of the word, while pre-boundary lengthening-the post-tonic part. Thus, an increase in vowel duration does not always cause a decrease in qualitative reduction, which may serve as evidence against the idea that qualitative reduction is caused by quantitative reduction. Additionally, these results may serve as an argument for the idea that the two processes-vowel reduction and temporal organization of utterance-are autonomous.

AB - Unstressed vowels in Russian are reduced in both duration and quality, but these two manifestations of vowel reduction do not have to be observed simultaneously. In order to investigate this question, we analysed the reduction pattern of words in such contexts where lengthening is induced by prosodic factors: prominence and pre-boundary lengthening. The study is based on a large corpus of read speech. The following results were obtained: (1) as expected, both contexts increase vowel duration; (2) under prosodic prominence vowels undergo less qualitative reduction, while pre-boundary lengthening has no effect on qualitative reduction; (3) additionally, it was shown that prominence mainly affects the pretonic part of the word, while pre-boundary lengthening-the post-tonic part. Thus, an increase in vowel duration does not always cause a decrease in qualitative reduction, which may serve as evidence against the idea that qualitative reduction is caused by quantitative reduction. Additionally, these results may serve as an argument for the idea that the two processes-vowel reduction and temporal organization of utterance-are autonomous.

KW - Pre-boundary lengthening

KW - Prosodic prominence

KW - Russian

KW - Segmental duration

KW - Vowel reduction

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U2 - 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2918

DO - 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2918

M3 - Conference article

VL - 2019-September

SP - 1956

EP - 1960

JO - Interspeech

JF - Interspeech

SN - 2308-457X

Y2 - 15 September 2019 through 19 September 2019

ER -

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