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The paper explores temporal changes within an intonational phrase in Russian. The main question we aim to answer is whether we can speak about temporal “declination” in a similar way we speak about melodic declination. In order to answer this question, we analysed stressed vowel duration in intonational phrases (IPs) of different types using a speech corpus. We have found that (1) most intonational phrases in Russian do not have temporal “declination” or “inclination” in the pre-nuclear part: the tempo is relatively stable until the nucleus, where a noticeable lengthening is observed; (2) the rarely occurring temporal “declination” or “inclination” in certain types of IPs can be considered a specific speaker’s trait; (3) the amount of lengthening on the last stressed vowel within the IP may play a role in distinguishing final and non-final IPs, rising vs. falling nuclei, but this is also speaker-specific.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Statistical Language and Speech Processing - 7th International Conference, SLSP 2019, Proceedings |
Subtitle of host publication | 7th International Conference, SLSP 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 14–16, 2019, Proceedings |
Editors | Carlos Martin-Vide, Matthew Purver, Senja Pollak |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 92-99 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Volume | 11816 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-31372-2 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-31371-5 |
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State | Published - 2019 |
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 11816 LNAI |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
ID: 47858236