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Word Accent and Vowel Duration in Standard Slovene Slavistische Beiträge ∙ Band 226 (eBook - Digi20-Retro) Tatjana Srebot-Rejec Word Accent and Vowel Duration in Standard Slovene An Acoustic and Linguistic Investigation Verlag Otto Sagner München ∙ Berlin ∙ Washington D.C. Digitalisiert im Rahmen der Kooperation mit dem DFG-Projekt „Digi20“ der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, München. OCR-Bearbeitung und Erstellung des eBooks durch den Verlag Otto Sagner: http://verlag.kubon-sagner.de © bei Verlag Otto Sagner. Eine Verwertung oder Weitergabe der Texte und Abbildungen, insbesondere durch Vervielfältigung, ist ohne vorherige schriftliche Genehmigung des Verlages unzulässig. «Verlag Otto Sagner» ist ein Imprint der Kubon & Sagner GmbH. Tatjana Srebot-Rejec - 9783954792146 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 04:04:59AM via free access 00050414 S l a v i s t i c h e B e it r ä g e BEGRÜNDET VON ALOIS SCHMAUS HERAUSGEGEBEN VON HEINRICH KUNSTMANN PETER REHDER JOSEF SCHRENK REDAKTION PETER REHDER Band 226 VERLAG OTTO SAGNER MÜNCHEN Tatjana Srebot-Rejec - 9783954792146 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 04:04:59AM via free access TATJANA SREBOT-REJEC WORD ACCENT AND VOWEL DURATION IN STANDARD SLOVENE An Acoustic and Linguistic Investigation VERLAG OTTO SAGNER • MÜNCHEN 1988 Tatjana Srebot-Rejec - 9783954792146 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 04:04:59AM via free access Bertiju v spomin Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München ISBN 3-87690-395-5 © Verlag Otto Sagner, München 1988 Abteilung der Firma Kubon & Sagner, München Tatjana Srebot-Rejec - 9783954792146 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 04:04:59AM via free access 00050414 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In the course of the years when this investigation was taking shape many people helped me, making it possible for me to start on it and carry it out. My thanks are due to the authorities of the Pedagoška akadēmija in Ljub- lj&na who created the conditions that enabled me to start thinking about this project: they did not shy й от the financial costs of providing a sonagraph and all the necessary phonetic literature, and carried the main brunt of the expenses in connection with the computer work. I should also like to thank the engineers Jože Tomše and Vinko Kune for keeping the sonagraph in good repair in spite of its several attempts to strike. Miloš Tavzes most generously offered to do the computer work and helped me with the Summary Tables. I am deeply obliged to Urska Snedic and Tine Logar for their substantial contribution to this investigation enabling me to deal with the perceptive side of Slovene word accent. I am especially grateful to the late ood fortune to׳Jakob Rigler for the few illuminating conversations I still had the j have with him on vowel duration and word accent in Slovene. I should further like to thank my linguistic friends Janez Orešnik and David Bennett for their most useful comments when reading parts of this study. My warm thanks to Margaret Davis for faithfully correcting my English. Ī should also mention the Znanstveni inštitut at the Arts Faculty of the University of Ljubljana which included my work in their programme. I should further like to express my deep thanks to the two mentors of my doctoral thesis Gerhard Neweklowsky and William Nemser of the University of Klagenfurt for their constant encouragement, especially in the initial stages of my work when for a long time no results were visible but only a sea of figures; for the patience with which they followed the slow course of this work; and for the great tolerance with which they encouraged me to develop my ideas. The investigation was submitted for a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Klagenfurt in spring 1987. Finally my thanks are due to Peter Rehder of Munich University for accept- ing this investigation for publication; and to the technical editor Ljubica Crnivec and the typist Marija Svara for producing the camera-ready copy of the volume. Tatjana Srebot-Rejec Ljubljana, March 1988 Tatjana Srebot-Rejec - 9783954792146 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 04:04:59AM via free access נ״■ • h 'i .־י־ N № IÏ f LK< •< ;יןי:• ь - ^ j Tatjana Srebot-Rejec - 9783954792146 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 04:04:59AM via free access VII CONTENTS ABRREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS XVI TECHNICAL TERMS AS USED IN THIS INVESTIGATION XVIII FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY PATTERNS (FoPs) XXI 1 A SHORT SURVEY OF SLOVENE TONEMATICS UP TO THE PRESENT 1-9 1.1 The territory of tonematic Slovene ............................................. 1.2 L. S v e te c ..................................................................................... 1.3 S. Škrabec..................................................................................... 1.4 M. Valjavec.................................................................................. 1.5 0. Broch ..................................................................................... 1.6 F. RaxnovS .................................................................................. 1.7 A. Isaćenko.................................................................................. 1.8 F. Bezlaj ..................................................................................... 1.9 В. Voduáek.................................................................................. 1.10 H. Jaksche .................................................................................. 1.11 J. ToporiSič.................................................................................. 1.12 M. Pleteränik................................................................................ 1.13 J. Rigler........................................................................................ 1.14 Word accent can be studied in sentences or in neutral (sentence intonation) position .................................................................... 1.15 Difficulties in describing SS word accent phonetically ................. 1.16 Present opinion on SS word accent ............................................. 2 INTRODUCTION 11-17 2.1 Study objectives.......................................................................... 2.2 Segmental phonemes of Slovene................................................... 2.3 Informants .................................................................................. 2.4 Corpus ........................................................................................ 2.5 Some data on the sensitivity of the human e a r .......................... 2.6 Spectrographic analysis.............................................................. 2.7 The basics of Slovene accent......................................................... 2.8 Slovene is a pitch accent language............................................. 3 NOMSENSE WORDS - VOWEL DURATION AND FREQUENCY 19-54 3.1 Measurements on vowel duration and frequency in other languages 3.2 The influence of adjacent consonants........................................... 3.3 The traditional view of stress and vowel duration in SS ............ 3.4 The structure of the nonsense w ords........................................... 3.5 On the frequency measurements................................................ 3.6 Some general principles (GP) of vowel duration in Slovene .... 3.7 Vowel durations ....................................................................... 23-32 3.7.1 Speaker J u ..................................................................................... Tatjana Srebot-Rejec - 9783954792146 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 04:04:59AM via free access Vili 3.7.1.1 Stressed vowels............................................................................ 3.7.1.2 Unstressed vowels ...................................................................... 3.7.1.3 Comparison between stressed and unstressed vowels................. 3.7.2 Speaker K a .................................................................................. 3.7.2.1 Stressed vowels............................................................................ 3.7.2.2 Unstressed vowels ...................................................................... 3.7.2.3 Comparison between stressed and unstressed vowels................. 3.7.3 Speaker Pi .................................................................................. 3.7.3.1 Stressed vowels............................................................................ 3.7.3.2 Unstressed vowels ...................................................................... 3.7.3.3 Comparison between stressed and unstressed vowels................. 3.7.4 Summary..................................................................................... 3.8 Vowel frequency .................................................................... 33-39 3.8.1 Speaker Ju .................................................................................. 3.8.1.1 Stressed vowels............................................................................ 3.8.1.1 Unstressed vowels ....................................................................... 3.8.2 Speaker K a .................................................................................. 3.8.2.1 Stressed vowels............................................................................ 3.8.2.2 Unstressed vowels ....................................................................... 3.8.3 Speaker Pi .................................................................................. 3.8.3.1 Stressed and unstressed vowels................................................... 3.8.4 Sum mary....................................................................................
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