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Universidade Federal De Santa Catarina Pós-graduação Em Letras/inglês E Literatura Correspondente Acoustic Correlates of Word Stress Production in the Connected Speech of American English and Brazilian Portuguese Speakers
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| Author | Faveri, Claudia Borges De Correa, Denise |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | ACOUSTIC CORRELATES OF WORD STRESS PRODUCTION IN THE CONNECTED SPEECH OF AMERICAN ENGLISH AND BRASILIAN PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS THAIS SADA RIBEIRO UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA 2006 Supervising Professor: Barbara Oughton Baptista This study set out to investigate the acoustic correlates of word stress in the connected speech of three Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and three American English (AE) speakers. After the subjects recorded an informative text in their native language, two bilinguals with formal training in phonetics pointed out the word stresses produced. Stressed vowels, as well as pretonic and posttonic vowels, were then measured as to their duration, F0 peak and Intensity peak. Acoustic units were next transformed into perceptual units, so that statistically significant differences between stressed and pretonic or between stressed and posttonic vowels could be classified as perceptible or not. The effect of the cooccurrence of sentence stress upon the correlates of word stress was also examined. Due to the reduced number of subjects, significant and perceptible results were further classified as occasional, recurrent or consistent, according to their matching the results of one, two or three speakers in each group. While recurrent and consistent results were considered representative of group results, occasional results were considered suggestive of individual differences. By the criteria used, duration was the only significant and perceptible acoustic correlate of word stress for both groups of speakers. Word stressed vowels were longer than pretonic vowels for the AE group, and longer than posttonic |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
