Declination of Supralaryngeal Gestures in Spoken Italian.
| Number | 811 |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Drawer | 15 |
| Entry Date | 11/04/1999 |
| Authors | Vayra, M., & Fowler, C. A. |
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| Publication | Phonetica, 49, 48-60. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0811.pdf |
| Abstract | Two experiments investigate a weakening of supralaryngeal gestures in an utterance, analogous in some ways to declination of fundamental frequency and amplitude. In one experiment, acoustic measures revealed progressive centralization of stressed /i/, /a/ and /u/ left to right in trisyllabic utterances read by Tuscan subjects. A second experiment, using speakers of a different (Northern) variety of Standard Italian, found reduction in jaw opening for stressed /a/ left to right, but generally failed to replicate a centralization of /i/. This experiment further suggested that the progressive weakening of supralaryngeal gestures is largely a phrase level rather than a word level phenomenon. Both experiments found a different, V-shaped, pattern of opening to be generally characteristic of unstressed syllables. |
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