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Utterance-Initial Duration of Finnish Non-Plosive Consonants

Tuomo Saarni, Jussi Hakokari, Olli Aaltonen, Jouni Isoaho, Tapio Salakoski, Utterance-Initial Duration of Finnish Non-Plosive Consonants. In: Joakim Nivre, Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek, Mare Koit (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA-2007, 160-166, University of Tartu, 2007.

Abstract:

We have investigated utterance-initial duration of non-plosive consonants
in two qualitatively different Finnish speech corpora. The goal has been
to identify any possible lengthening or shortening effects the domain
edge (here, the beginning of an utterance) might have on segmental
duration. Duration was observed at phone level. The results indicate
that cases of lengthening, shortening, and absence of any effect all
occur. Those are determined by the speech sounds phonemic identity,
and the results were similar in both corpora. For instance /s/ and /r/
are lengthened while /j/ and /m/ are shortened. Contrasted with
previous research on various languages, the phonetic universality
associated with final lengthening does not apply for initial duration
processes.

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BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpSaHaAaIsSa07a,
  title = {Utterance-Initial Duration of Finnish Non-Plosive Consonants},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA-2007},
  author = {Saarni, Tuomo and Hakokari, Jussi and Aaltonen, Olli and Isoaho, Jouni and Salakoski, Tapio},
  editor = {Nivre, Joakim and Kaalep, Heiki-Jaan and Muischnek, Kadri and Koit, Mare},
  publisher = {University of Tartu},
  pages = {160-166},
  year = {2007},
}

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