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Prosody-segment Interactions in the Acoustics of Polish Front Vowels

Publication date: 30.11.2020

Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 15 (2020), Vol. 15, Issue 3, pp. 151 - 175

https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.20.007.12979

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Ewelina Wojtkowiak
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8309-7631 Orcid
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Prosody-segment Interactions in the Acoustics of Polish Front Vowels

Abstract

This paper presents an acoustic study devised to investigate the effects of three presumably distinct prosodic position on the phonetic realisation of Polish front vowels in #CV (that is, following a prosodic boundary and a consonantal onset) and #VC sequences (that is, immediately following a prosodic boundary). The results of the experiment suggest that Polish does not seem to distinguish between utterance-initial and phrase-initial positions, with some contrasts present between these two positions and phrase-medial tokens with respect to F1. No effects of position have been found for F2 or vowel duration. There are also no clear differences on the acoustic realisation of vowels depending on whether or not they are adjacent to the prosodic boundary. These results raise questions about the nature of prosodic structure in Polish as compared to other languages which show more robust effects.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Geoffrey Schwartz for all his help and support and to Adam Olender for his help with data collection. Thanks also go to two anonymous reviewers. Any remaining errors are my own responsibility.

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Information: Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 15 (2020), Vol. 15, Issue 3, pp. 151 - 175

Article type: Original article

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Prosody-segment Interactions in the Acoustics of Polish Front Vowels

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8309-7631

Ewelina Wojtkowiak
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8309-7631 Orcid
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Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Published at: 30.11.2020

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* The author is supported by a grant from the Polish National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), Project Number 2015/19/N/HS2/03395.

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