Acoustic Analysis of Tones in Contemporary Standard Slovene
Preliminary Findings
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https://doi.org/10.3986/SLS.6.1.10Keywords:
Word prosody, tonemicity, Slovenian languageAbstract
The author presents preliminary findings of a larger acoustic study into prosodic structure of Slovene. This investigation in acoustic properties of tones in Slovene addresses vowel duration, intensity and fundamental frequency. Although no statistical differences between both lexical tones (or pitch-accents) were found in the first and second variable, the third was found highly significant. The results differ greatly from what was previously established. Disyllables differ in F0 of the individual vowels. In trisyllables with antepenultimate stress, the F0 difference is the highest in the final syllable.
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