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

The Grouping Function of F0 and Duration in two Prosodically Diverse Languages - Eskimo and Yoruba

Yasuko Nagano-Madsen

Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University, Sweden

This paper discusses how F0 and duration are utilized as local prosodic cues in two prosodically diverse languages - Eskimo and Yoruba. The analysis of text-reading and radio news-broadcasts has indicated that (1) F0 and duration are used in a mutually exclusive way in the two languages, (2) different relationships exists between F0 and duration for the two languages, but (3) there is a similar principle in the use of local prosodic cue in dividing a paragraph into smaller constituents.

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Bibliographic reference.  Nagano-Madsen, Yasuko (1993): "The grouping function of F0 and duration in two prosodically diverse languages - Eskimo and Yoruba", In Prosody-1993, 46-49.