High Front Vowels in Czech: a Contrast in Quantity or Quality?

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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11210/09:00200700
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
High Front Vowels in Czech: a Contrast in Quantity or Quality?
Original language description
We investigate the perception and production of Czech /I/ and /i:/, a contrast traditionally described as quantitative. First, we show that the spectral difference between the vowels is for many Czechs as strong a cue as (or even stronger than) duration.Second, we test the hypothesis that this shift towards vowel quality as a perceptual cue for this contrast resulted in weakening of the durational differentiation in production. Our measurements confirm this: members of the /I/-/i:/ pair differed in duration much less than those of other short-long pairs. We interpret these findings in terms of Lindblom?s H&H theory.
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2009
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009)
ISBN
978-1-61567-692-7
ISSN
1990-9772
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Number of pages
4
Pages from-to
132-135
Publisher name
International Speech Communication Association
Place of publication
Brighton, Velká Británie
Event location
Brighton, Velká Británie
Event date
Sep 6, 2009
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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