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By A. M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens

ISBN-10: 0195085469

ISBN-13: 9780195085464

The reconstruction of the prosody of a lifeless language is, at the face of it, a nearly very unlikely project. notwithstanding, as soon as a normal concept of prosody has been constructed from trustworthy facts in dwelling languages, it's attainable to use texts as resources of solutions to questions that might more often than not be spoke back within the laboratory. during this paintings, the authors interpret the facts of Greek verse texts and musical settings within the framework of a concept of prosody in line with crosslinguistic facts and experimental phonetic and psycholinguistic information, and reconstruct the syllable constitution, rhythm, accessory, phraseology, and intonation of classical Greek speech. subtle statistical analyses are hired to aid a powerful diversity of latest findings which relate not just to phonetics and phonology, but additionally to pragmatics and the syntax-phonology interface.

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According to a study of Chinese, the generalization is that tonal turning points tended to occur at the boundary between consonant and vowel (Garding 1987). In Japanese bimoraic nonsense words with the structure VmV, lip closure for the nasal consonant beginning the second syllable was fairly well synchronized with the onset of the pitch shift both for Low High and for High Low patterns (Sawashima et al. 1982). Another study of Japanese found that the High-Low turning point was particularly strongly fixed to the syllable or mora boundary: if the turning point was moved to the central part of the nucleus — under experimental conditions or in utterances by nonnative speakers —listeners tended to hear the vowel as having two moras; since the duration of the vowel in the synthesized version had not been changed, the High-Low turning point The Syllable 31 was evidently interpreted as a cue for a mora boundary (Nagano-Madsen 1987, 1989; Nagano-Madsen et al.

The constriction is made by the vocal cords, often with adduction of the false vocal cords also, as in the cockney pronunciation of intervocalic and word final t. Two features define the nature of the airflow path: 1. Oral vs. nasal. " If the velum is lowered, the airflow passes through the nasal cavity even though the oral cavity is occluded, as in consonants such as n, v. 2. Central vs. lateral. " A is a lateral consonant. The following are the most important types of articulatory constriction: 1.

A reflex adjustment of the laryngeal muscles to the push occurs at least 30-40 msec after the push; prior to this, during the first 30 msec after the push, fundamental frequency changes at the rate of about 3-4 Hz/cmH2O in the chest voice (Baer 1979; Strik et al. 1989). Consequently, only a small proportion of the rise in pitch associated with stress in English can be accounted for by increased subglottal pressure (Ohala 1978; Gelfer 1987). Furthermore, increased subglottal pressure can arise not only from a chest pulse The Physiology of Prosody | 15 but also indirectly from changes in glottal resistance owing to increased vocal fold tension (Isshiki 1964; Hirano et al.

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