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ItemThe “other” Spanish: Methodological issues in the study of speech timing in Chilean Spanish(International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2020-01-01)This paper is a preliminary account of speech rhythm and some phonological properties of Chilean Spanish in spontaneous dialogues. Different dialects of Spanish have been studied using rhythm metrics measuring the durational variability of vocalic and consonantal intervals. There are, however, methodological issues regarding the segmentation of intervals, often overlooked in previous research, such as the criteria for categorising certain segments into the different intervals and the segmentation of different voice qualities. The present study addresses this gap and compares rhythm metrics obtained using two methods of segmentation based on the available literature. The analyses reveal that a strictly 'acoustic' approach to segmentation of intervals results in slightly inflated metrics. Nevertheless, both methods show there is significant durational interval variability in Chilean Spanish, compared to other dialects of Spanish, that may be connected to phonological properties of the variety.
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ItemPhrasing and constituent boundaries in Lifou French(Australasian Speech Science and Technology Australia (ASSTA), 2019)
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ItemSecond language fluency: re-thinking utterance fluency from a phonetics-phonology interface(Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019-08-09)Research into second language fluency has called for cross-linguistic studies to rule out measures that can be attributed to intra-speaker variation. However, cross-linguistic comparisons in fluency studies are problematic. Research in the area has not necessarily taken into consideration differences across languages such as syllable structure, phonotactics, durational cues to prominence and prosodic levels, and idiosyncratic nature of pause duration. The preliminary results of this study into L2 fluency in Chilean Spanish speakers of English revealed that speed and pause phenomena were mostly idiosyncratic, and that segments rather than syllables could be a more reliable measure. Durational cues for phrasal level prominence were not implemented consistently in the L1 and preboundary lengthening in the L2 was not necessarily being used to signal prosodic constituent boundaries. It may be useful to re-operationalize measures used in L2 fluency studies from a phonetics-phonology interface perspective
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ItemAcoustic correlates of the French Accentual Phrase in Lifou (New Caledonia)(International Speech Communication Association, 2018)This paper investigates the realization of the Accentual Phrase (AP) in Lifou French by bilingual speakers of Drehu and French. In French prominence is marked within a phrasal domain and the AP represents the lowest tonally marked prosodic constituent. Although still controversial, increasingly, there have been contributions arguing for a further prosodic level, the intermediate phrase (ip) between the AP and the Intonation Phrase (IP). In this study, it is shown that Lifou French uses the same tonal patterns as found for Standard French. Additionally, further evidence for the existence of another prosodic level after the AP is found. However, while in Standard French an increased F0 rise and final vowel lengthening have been shown to mark the ip-boundary, an expanded pitch span represents the more salient cue to mark this in Lifou French.
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ItemManagement of metadata in linguistic fieldwork: Experience from the ACLA project(European Language Resource Association, 2004-01-01)
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ItemIndigenous Perspectives on the Vitality of Murrinh-Patha(Australian Linguistics Society, 2010)