Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles: Reduction and Elaboration in Speech Communication Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain September 30 - October 2, 1991

Compensatory Shortening in Spanish Spontaneous Speech

Mar Carrió Font, Antonio Ríos Mestre

Laboratori de Fonètica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Our experiment aims at studying compensatory shortening phenomena in Spanish spontaneous speech taking into account as a variables stressed syllable duration and total duration of surrounding unstressed fragments. Results show that in Spanish there is not compensatory shortening, which is supposed to be characteristic cf stress-timed languages.

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Bibliographic reference.  Carrió Font, Mar / Ríos Mestre, Antonio (1991): "Compensatory shortening in Spanish spontaneous speech", In PPoSpSt-1991, paper 016.