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Some non-sequential phenomena in German function words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2002

Thomas Wesener
Affiliation:
Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, University of [email protected]

Abstract

Labellers of connected speech corpora encounter a number of cases which are difficult to handle with a linear sequence of segmental labels. Based on material from a corpus of German unscripted speech, this paper presents non-sequential aspects of laryngeal activity for /x/ and /h/, and of supralaryngeal articulation in vocoid exponents of postvocalic /r/. Comparative data for /r/ from a corpus of German read speech indicate that differences across speaking styles may be independent of durational variation. It is discussed how models of the phonology-phonetics interface and Prosodic Analysis can account for the findings.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 International Phonetic Association

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