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The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages
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In: Linguistics Vanguard ; https://hal.univ-lyon2.fr/hal-03167445 ; Linguistics Vanguard, 2021, 7 (1), pp.20190063. ⟨10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063⟩ (2021)
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International audience ; Words in utterance-final positions are often pronounced more slowly than utterance-medial words, as previous studies on individual languages have shown. This paper provides a systematic cross-linguistic comparison of relative durations of final and penultimate words in utterances in terms of the degree to which such words are lengthened. The study uses time-aligned corpora from 10 genealogically, areally, and culturally diverse languages, including eight small, under-resourced, and mostly endangered languages, as well as English and Dutch. Clear effects of lengthening words at the end of utterances are found in all 10 languages, but the degrees of lengthening vary. Languages also differ in the relative durations of words that precede utterance-final words. In languages with on average short words in terms of number of segments, these penultimate words are also lengthened. This suggests that lengthening extends backwards beyond the final word in these languages, but not in languages with on average longer words. Such typological patterns highlight the importance of examining prosodic phenomena in diverse language samples beyond the small set of majority languages most commonly investigated so far.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; final lengthening; language documentation; prosodic typology; word duration
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063 https://hal.univ-lyon2.fr/hal-03167445
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The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages
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Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech ...
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Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech ...
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Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech ...
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Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech
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Discovering two almost extinct languages in Bolivia: Jorá and Guarasu
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In: 18e Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Sciences du Langage ; https://hal-univ-paris3.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01495156 ; 18e Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Sciences du Langage, ED 268 Paris 3, Jun 2015, Paris, France (2015)
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