ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Towards an Integrated View of Stress Correlates

Gunnar Fant, Anita Kruckenberg

Department of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, Stockholm, Sweden

Previous analysis of duration and of F0 as stress correlates in Swedish prose reading, Fant and Kruckenherg (1989), Fant, Kruckenberg and Nord (1992), have been extended and work has been initiated on the study of intensity, voice source properties and segmental contrasts as prosodic parameters. The hierarchy of duration over F0 and intensity is established. Although a small average intensity difference is found between stressed and unstressed syllables, the major role of intensity, apart from determining the loudness level, appears to be that of supplementing overall F0 contours within breathgroups. A special phenomenon in Swedish is the inverse relation between emphasis and intensity of close vowels due to articulatory narrowing.

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Bibliographic reference.  Fant, Gunnar / Kruckenberg, Anita (1993): "Towards an integrated view of stress correlates", In Prosody-1993, 42-45.