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Measuring Relative Articulation Rate in Finnish Utterances

Jussi Hakokari, Tuomo Saarni, Tapio Salakoski, Jouni Isoaho, Olli Aaltonen, Measuring Relative Articulation Rate in Finnish Utterances. In: Jürgen Trouvain, William J. Barry (Eds.), 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Proceedings, 1105-1108, 2007.

Abstract:

This paper presents two investigations into articulation rate, or the
distribution of segmental duration, in a Finnish language speech corpus.
The first study, rank ordering of short utterances according to their
component words’ articulation rate, reveals that 75 % or more of Finnish
utterances can be expected show some level of final lengthening. Also
initial shortening, or accelerated speaking rate in the beginning of
utterances, is present in amounts clearly above chance level. The second
study, an investigation into how relative duration progresses in
utterances, confirms the observations mentioned before. Furthermore, the
second study shows the initial and final effects are statistically
significant. Importantly, the results are near-identical to those obtained
independently from Southern Swedish, even though the languages and corpora
in question are entirely different.

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BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpHaSaSaIsAa07a,
  title = {Measuring Relative Articulation Rate in Finnish Utterances},
  booktitle = {16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Proceedings},
  author = {Hakokari, Jussi and Saarni, Tuomo and Salakoski, Tapio and Isoaho, Jouni and Aaltonen, Olli},
  editor = {Trouvain, Jürgen and Barry, William J.},
  pages = {1105-1108},
  year = {2007},
  keywords = {final lengthening, initial shortening, speaking rate, corpus, segmental duration},
}

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