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Phonetik in und über Österreich
Previous studies on the acoustic correlates of stress as metrical word prominence and (pitch) acc... more Previous studies on the acoustic correlates of stress as metrical word prominence and (pitch) accent have come to contradictory conclusions concerning the phonetic reality of stress. some suggest spectral tilt (spectral balance, spectral emphasis) as a phonetic correlate of stress in the abstraction from the effect of intonational pitch accent (e.g., slujter & van Heuven, 1996a, b), while others found no difference in spectral tilt between stressed and unstressed vowels in the absence of pitch accent (e.g., campbell & Beckman, 1997). so far, all studies used an experimental design with narrowly focused versus deaccented target words to test their hypotheses. drawing on a large corpus of read sentences of standard Austrian German (cf. moosmüller et al., 2015) as pronounced by 37 speakers from the eastern provinces of Austria (schuppler et al., 2014), our study examines vowel quality, duration, and spectral tilt in comparable syllables in different positions and accent conditions, using different factors as independent variables in a mixed effects logistic regression analysis. We take this approach as a first step for a subsequent investigation of the acoustic correlates of prominence in conversational speech. Bisherige studien zu akustischen Korrelaten von Wortakzent im sinne metrischer Prominenz und (ton-)Akzent im sinne intonatorischer Hervorhebung kommen zu unterschiedlichen ergebnissen im Hinblick auf die
Phonetik in und über Österreich
Previous studies on the acoustic correlates of stress as metrical word prominence and (pitch) acc... more Previous studies on the acoustic correlates of stress as metrical word prominence and (pitch) accent have come to contradictory conclusions concerning the phonetic reality of stress. some suggest spectral tilt (spectral balance, spectral emphasis) as a phonetic correlate of stress in the abstraction from the effect of intonational pitch accent (e.g., slujter & van Heuven, 1996a, b), while others found no difference in spectral tilt between stressed and unstressed vowels in the absence of pitch accent (e.g., campbell & Beckman, 1997). so far, all studies used an experimental design with narrowly focused versus deaccented target words to test their hypotheses. drawing on a large corpus of read sentences of standard Austrian German (cf. moosmüller et al., 2015) as pronounced by 37 speakers from the eastern provinces of Austria (schuppler et al., 2014), our study examines vowel quality, duration, and spectral tilt in comparable syllables in different positions and accent conditions, using different factors as independent variables in a mixed effects logistic regression analysis. We take this approach as a first step for a subsequent investigation of the acoustic correlates of prominence in conversational speech. Bisherige studien zu akustischen Korrelaten von Wortakzent im sinne metrischer Prominenz und (ton-)Akzent im sinne intonatorischer Hervorhebung kommen zu unterschiedlichen ergebnissen im Hinblick auf die