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

Word-Prosodic Features in Estonian Conversational Speech: Some Preliminary Results

Diana Krull

Stockholm University, Institute of Linguistics, Stockholm, Sweden

Estonian has three distinctive degrees of quantity: short, long and overlong. This paper reports an investigation on the temporal and tonal correlates of quantity in the natural conversation of one Estonian speaker. The results show statistically significant differences between quantities only for the temporal correlates. The tonal correlates had a considerable overlapping between quantities.

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Bibliographic reference.  Krull, Diana (1993): "Word-prosodic features in estonian conversational speech: some preliminary results", In Prosody-1993, 148-151.