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.
Cite as: Carrió Font, M., Ríos Mestre, A. (1991) Compensatory shortening in Spanish spontaneous speech. Proc. ESCA Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles, paper 016
@inproceedings{carriofont91_ppst,
author={Mar {Carrió Font} and Antonio {Ríos Mestre}},
title={{Compensatory shortening in Spanish spontaneous speech}},
year=1991,
booktitle={Proc. ESCA Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles},
pages={paper 016}
}