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Word final aspiration as a phrase boundary cue: Data from spontaneous Swedish discourse

In English

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Summary, in English

The Swedish sound string /at/ (graphically: att) is associated with two grammatical functions: a) (part of) a subordinate conjunction and b) as an infinitive marker. Previous studies connect final lengthening and pauses with prosodic and syntactic boundaries in spoken discourse. Following these findings, this pilot study, with 5 short spontaneous discourses from 3 male speakers shows a correlation between pauses after att, and aspiration of /t/ in att. We also show a tendency for att with aspiration to be associated with the grammatical function of subordinate conjunction. Further, looking at the distribution of aspiration in the subordinate conjunction att, and in the infinitive marker att, we are able to show a tendency for the infinitive marker to be unaspirated in the normal case, while the subordinate conjunctions are characterized by final aspiration in 40 % of the cases.

Publiceringsår

2001

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

119-122

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Proceedings Eurospeech 2001

Volym

1

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

ESCA

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • aspiration
  • prosody
  • phrase boundary
  • prosodic boundary

Conference name

EUROSPEECH 2001

Conference date

2001-09-03

Status

Published

Projekt

  • The role of function words in spontaneous speech processing

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1018-4074