@inproceedings{cbbe8224150f4ae39fcbd68120ab8586,
title = "Temporal “Declination” in Different Types of IPs in Russian: Preliminary Results",
abstract = "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{\textquoteright}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.",
keywords = "Intonational phrase, Prosody, Russian phonetics, Segmental duration, Speech tempo",
author = "Качковская, {Татьяна Васильевна}",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-31372-2_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-31371-5",
volume = "11816",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "92--99",
editor = "Carlos Martin-Vide and Matthew Purver and Senja Pollak",
booktitle = "Statistical Language and Speech Processing - 7th International Conference, SLSP 2019, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}