Pitch as a Physical Correlate of Stress in Gedeo Nouns
Abstract
This study aims at investigating the acoustic correlates of stress in the nouns of the Gedeo language. Acoustic analysis is employed to analyze
81 nouns recorded from three native speakers of the languages. Results showed that, in this language, pitch variations are significant correlates of
stress in nouns. Unlike the general literature on the phonetic correlates of stress, duration, particularly vowel length, does not appear to be a consistent correlate of stress.
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Praat: Doing Phonetics by computer[Computer Programme]. http://www.praat.org.
Brosnahan, L. F., and B. Malmberg. 1970. Introduction to Phonetics. Cambridge: Heffer.
Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia. 2007. No Title. Addis Ababa: Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia.
Dogil, G., and B. Williams. 1999. “The Phonetic Manifestation of Word Stress.” In
Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe, edited by H. van der Hulst, 273–311. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Eyob Kelemework. 2006. “Word Formation in Gedeo.” Addis Ababa University.
Fry, D. B. 1955. “Duration and Intensity as Physical Correlates of Linguistic Stress.” Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 27 (4): 765–68.
———. 1958. “Experiments in the Perception of Stress.” Language and Speech 1:126–52.
———. 1964. “The Dependence of Stress Judgments on Vowel Formant Structure.”
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2017-07-27
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