Syllable Timing and Pausing: Evidence from Cantonese

Autor/inn/en	Perry, Conrad; Wong, Richard Kwok-Shing; Matthews, Stephen
Titel	Syllable Timing and Pausing: Evidence from Cantonese
Quelle	In: Language and Speech, 52 (2009) 1, S.29-53 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8309
DOI	10.1177/0023830908099882
Schlagwörter	Sino Tibetan Languages; Syllables; Acoustics; Time; Language Patterns; Mandarin Chinese; English; Indo European Languages; Differences; Contrastive Linguistics; Suprasegmentals; Foreign Countries; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Silbe; Akustik; Zeit; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; English language; Englisch; Indoeuropäisch; Unterscheiden; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Ausland; Hongkong
Abstract	We examined the relationship between the acoustic duration of syllables and the silent pauses that follow them in Cantonese. The results showed that at major syntactic junctures, acoustic plus silent pause durations were quite similar for a number of different syllable types whose acoustic durations differed substantially. In addition, it appeared that CV: syllables, which had the longest acoustic duration of all syllable types that were examined, were also the least likely to have silent pauses after them. These results suggest that cross-language differences between the probability that silent pauses are used at major syntactic junctures might potentially be explained by the accuracy at which timing slots can be assigned for syllables, rather than more complex explanations that have been proposed. (Contains 2 tables, 5 figures and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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