TY - GEN

T1 - Position-dependent Vowel Reduction in Russian

AU - Kocharov, Daniil

AU - Kachkovskaia, Tatiana

AU - Skrelin, Pavel

N1 - Conference code: 18

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - The present paper deals with the problem of quality and quantity change (reduction) of unstressed vowels in Russian depending on their position relative to the stressed syllable and to the word boundaries. Quality change is measured by calculating the probability of vowel omission or replacement by another vowel phoneme. The study is based on a large corpus of read speech (over 30 hours). The results show that (1) there are two clear degrees of vowel reduction; (2) pre-stressed and post-stressed parts of the word are not symmetrical in terms of vowel reduction; (3) in pre-stressed syllables vowel quality change is correlated with quantity change.

AB - The present paper deals with the problem of quality and quantity change (reduction) of unstressed vowels in Russian depending on their position relative to the stressed syllable and to the word boundaries. Quality change is measured by calculating the probability of vowel omission or replacement by another vowel phoneme. The study is based on a large corpus of read speech (over 30 hours). The results show that (1) there are two clear degrees of vowel reduction; (2) pre-stressed and post-stressed parts of the word are not symmetrical in terms of vowel reduction; (3) in pre-stressed syllables vowel quality change is correlated with quantity change.

KW - Russian vowels

KW - vowel reduction

KW - positional variants of vowels

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-0-85261-941-4

BT - Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK

PB - University of Glasgow

T2 - 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Y2 - 10 August 2015 through 14 August 2015

ER -