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1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling:
From Control Strategies to Acoustics
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1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling:
From Control Strategies to Acoustics
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This study explores (by means of EPG) the variations in the articulation of vowels and of consonant III in CV syllables of trisyllabic words, as a function of lexical stress, word/ sentence boundaries, and the context in which the word is produced (in isolation or embedded in a sentence). The goal is to assess the nature of these changes, and the degree to which they affect V and/or C. The results show that stress and boundaries affect the whole syllable: in stressed syllables and in those signalling prosodic boundaries the CV contrast is enhanced and the CV coarticulatory effects tend to decrease. However, only the changes induced by stress result in an enhancement of the vowel-specific distinctive qualities.
Bibliographic reference. Farnetani, Edda / Vayra, Mario (1996): "The role of prosody in the shaping of articulation in Italian CV syllables", In SPM-1996, 9-12.