Lexical, pragmatic, and positional effects on prosody in two dialects of Croatian and Serbian : an acoustic study

Rajka Smiljanic

This book looks at the interaction between pragmatics, prosody, and lexical contrast as factors that condition variation in pitch and duration in two closely related dialects of Croatian and Serbian. The dialects differ in the presence or absence of a lexical contrast for phonological pitch and for vowel duration. The research is based on an acoustic study of pitch and duration, and the results indicate the cross-dialectal variation in prosodic features can be as large as the variation that is found across distinct languages. An important finding is that the expression of narrow focus is limited by the existence of lexical prosodic contrasts. This study sheds light on the principles that govern the phonetic implementation of lexical, prosodic, and pragmatic information, and has implications for intonational phonology and the typology of prosodic systems. This study also makes a significant contribution to Croatian and Serbian dialectology.

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  • 1. Introduction 2. Focus and Prosody: The Effect of Narrow Focus on Vowel Duration and Pitch-Peak Alignment 3. Other Acoustic Correlates of Accents and Pragmatic Narrrow Focus 4. Effect of Pragmatic Narrow Focus on Word Non-Initial Accents 5. Effects of Prosodic Position on Vowel Duration and Peak Alignment: Early vs Late Focus 6. Conclusions

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書名 Lexical, pragmatic, and positional effects on prosody in two dialects of Croatian and Serbian : an acoustic study
著作者等 Smiljanic Rajka
シリーズ名 Outstanding dissertations in linguistics
出版元 Routledge
刊行年月 2004
ページ数 x, 194 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0415971179
NCID BA7021351X
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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