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XXVII FONETIIKAN PÄIVÄT 2012 PHONETICS SYMPOSIUM 2012 PROCEEDINGS Tallinn 2012 Electronic publications XXVII FONETIIKAN PÄIVÄT 2012 PHONETICS SYMPOSIUM 2012 17-18 FEBRUARY 2012, TALLINN, ESTONIA PROCEEDINGS Einar Meister (ed.) Tallinn 2012 XXVII Fonetiikan päivät 2012 – Phonetics Symposium 2012 17-18 February 2012, Tallinn, Estonia Proceedings Edited by Einar Meister Cover page photo by Allan Alajaan Source: Tallinn City Tourist Office & Convention Bureau Electronic publications Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology Akadeemia tee 21, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia http://www.ioc.ee TUT Press Akadeemia tee 1, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia ISBN 978-9949-23-385-4(PDF) Sponsored by the Estonian Center of Excellence in Computer Science, EXCS (funded mainly by the European Regional Development Fund), and by the Ministry of Education and Research Copyright: the editor and authors, 2012. Content Foreword iv Niina Aasmäe, Karl Pajusalu, Nele Salveste, Tatiana Zirnask Quantity in Moksha-Mordvin 1 Eva Liina Asu, Nele Salveste The phonetic and phonological analysis of the fall-rise intonation pattern in the Kihnu variety of Estonian 6 Eva Liina Asu, Pärtel Lippus, Ellen Niit, Helen Türk The acoustic characteristics of monophthongs and diphthongs in the Kihnu variety of Estonian 12 Osmo Eerola, Janne Savela Production of short and long Finnish vowels with and without noise masking 17 Dennis Estill Revisiting the Meadow Mari vocalic system 21 Kati Järvinen, Anne-Maria Laukkanen Native Finnish and English Speakers’ Fundamental Frequency, Equivalent Sound Level, and Long-Time Average Spectrum Characteristics in Text-reading in Finnish and English 27 Einar Meister, Lya Meister, Rainer Metsvahi New speech corpora at IoC 30 Michael L. O’Dell, Tommi Nieminen, Mietta Lennes Modeling turn-taking rhythms with oscillators 34 Stina Ojala, Pertti Palo A Sign Annotation Tool for Phoneticians 41 Pertti Palo, Daniel Aalto, Olli Aaltonen, Risto-Pekka Happonen, Jarmo Malinen, Jani Saunavaara, Martti Vainio Articulating Finnish Vowels: Results from MRI and sound data 45 Terhi Peltola Factors affecting the categorizing and rating of the goodness of L2 vowels 48 Kari Suomi, Einar Meister A preliminary comparison of Estonian and Finnish plosives 52 Kairi Tamuri, Meelis Mihkla Emotions and speech temporal structure 55 Stefan Werner, Einar Meister Microduration in Finnish and Estonian vowels revisited: methodological musings 61 iii Preface XXVII Fonetiikan päivät 2012 – Phonetics Symposium 2012 continues the tradition of meetings of Finnish phoneticians started in 1971 in Turku. These meetings, held in turn at different universities in Finland, have been frequently attended by Estonian phoneticians as well. In 1998 the meeting was held in Pärnu, Estonia, and in 2012 it took place in Estonia for the second time. The meeting was attended by 52 participants – 35 from Finland, 15 from Estonia, 1 from Sweden and 1 from Hungary. There were 22 oral and 12 posters presentations in the program covering a wide variety of topics from basic phonetic research to recent developments in spoken language technology. However, the proceedings contain only 14 full papers, the abstracts of all presentations and the program of the symposium are available at http://www.ioc.ee/fp2012/. The special opening session was devoted to Ilse Lehiste, Matti Karjalainen and Arvo Eek to commemorate and honor their scientific contributions to Estonian and Finnish phonetics and speech technology. The symposium was hosted by the Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Technology, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology (IoC) and organized in co-operation with the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science, EXCS, and supported by the Ministry of Education and Research. Tallinn, October 2012 Einar Meister iv Quantity in MOKSHA-MORDVIN Niina Aasmäe, Karl Pajusalu, Nele Salveste, Tatiana Zirnask Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] providing evidence to attest to the conditioning role of stress Abstract for vowel durations in Moksha. Analyses presented in the This article provides empirical data concerning the prosody of paper are based on the core variety of Moksha, namely, the the Moksha language: it evaluates the effect of the position of Central dialect group, which is the prototype of the literary stress, the characteristics of word structure, and the position of language. As an extension to the main part of the analysis, a a word in an utterance upon the temporal relationship between comparison of data obtained by now on the temporal the syllable nuclei. Acoustical analyses were carried out using characteristics of stressed and unstressed vowels for both a set of target words embedded in frame sentences, which were Moksha and Erzya is offered. read by eight speakers of Central Moksha. As an extension to the main part of the analysis, a comparison of the data for Moksha and results obtained earlier in an analogous study of 2. Data analysis vowel durations in Erzya is offered. Index Terms : the Moksha and Erzya languages, stress, 2.1. Material and procedures intrinsic duration, syllable, vowel reduction For scarcity of data on Moksha, only controlled speech was used for observations. Acoustic measurements were made on sub-dialects referred to Central Moksha, the prototype dialect 1. Introduction of the written language. Recordings were made of target words Written Erzya- and Moksha-Mordvin are mutually intelligible read by 6 female and 2 male informants. Below, the initial to a fairly high extent. As far as oral communication between letters of the informants’ names, age and place of residence are Erzyans and Mokshans is concerned, it is hindered because of indicated. phonetic and phonological differences between the languages. • Mordovskaya Kozlovka, Kargo ńžaj, of the Atyuryevo It has been noted in earlier works on the phonetics of the region: Mordvin languages, especially following the observations of JM, a female aged 50; NN, a female aged 39; IS, a male Heikki Paasonen [1], that the manifestations of stress and the aged 56; NM, a male aged 54 system of vowels in Erzya and Moksha diverge to a • considerable extent. Systematic research on the prosodic Polskoye Tsibayevo, Pak śań Pora ńa, of the Temnikov features of the Mordvin languages in the framework of region: acoustic phonetics has begun only since the turn of this JS, a female aged 53 century; see, for example: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. • Mordovskiye Parki, Mokše ń Parka of the Empirical data are hitherto available mostly on Erzya. It Krasnoslobodsk region: should be noted that the first acoustic data of Moksha were ST, a female aged 41 published in the 1960–1970s: [9], [10]. A. Sovijärvi has • examined the formant structure of the schwa vowel (ǝ); the Zaitsevo of the Kovylkino region: theme has been lately treated in [11]. In S. Z. Devayev’s TR, a female aged 40; VT, a female aged 34 works the conditioning role of stress upon vowel durations has been demonstrated in a small set of words read by one The test words were embedded in a frame sentence, in informant. Vowel duration data based on a fairly large-sized which they occurred in a phrase- and sentence-final position, set of words have been provided of late by T. Zirnask (see as shown below: [7]); observations have been made on a South-Western variety of Moksha spoken in Novo-Badikovo, a locality in the Zubova Märg əĺiń maks ă, af śijä . ‘I would say liver , not silver ’. Polyana region of the Republic of Mordovia. As material, Märg əĺiń śijä , af maks ă. ‘I would say silver , not liver ’. target words embedded in a frame-sentence were used. Vowel durations in the test words read by two informants showed The total number of tokens used for the analysis was 1664. dependence on the position of stress. The material was recorded by T. Zirnask in 2008. The acoustic In the case of Moksha, duration can be, a priori, regarded a measurement procedures were carried out using the PRAAT- cue to stressedness for two reasons. Firstly, the length of the software [15]. In the test words composed of one to six segments is not contrastive in the language – there are neither syllables the main structural types (CV, CVC) with variations long vowels and diphthongs nor geminates; hence, duration (like CCVC, CVCC, etc.) occurred. The vowel segments that can serve as a phonetic cue to stressedness. Secondly, Moksha occurred in the material ( a, o, u, i, e, ä, ǝ) correspond to those is characterized by the presence of vowel reduction, which is identified in the inventory of the Central dialects and written considered to be a phenomenon conditioned by duration-based Moksha; see, for example: [16], [17]. Prior to the stress; see, for example: [12], [13], [14]. In view of these measurement procedures, the location of stress in the test- typological maxims, the aim of the present paper consists in words was assigned through repeated listening (by T. Zirnask, 1 Aasmäe et al.: Quantity in MOKSHA-MORDVIN a native Moksha and N. Aasmäe, a native Erzya). In the positions. This difference is statistically highly significant (p majority of cases (nearly 90 percent), stress was marked on = 4.66E-13, F =53.91, Fcrit. =3.852). first syllables. Cases of non-initial stress included words like It can be noticed that vowels in the final syllable of śijä ‘silver’, kundasamak ‘you will catch me’ having a high trisyllabic words, especially in the sentence-final position, are vowel ( i, u ) in the first syllable and a low vowel ( a, ä ) in a longer than those in the preceding unstressed syllable. This subsequent syllable. The location of stress in such words, observation allows suggesting that trisyllabic words receiving however, alternated. A same speaker could pronounce them additional stress, which appears to be duration-based, are with initial stress in one utterance and non-initial stress in likely to constitute two feet – a disyllabic foot and a so-called another utterance.

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