title: Effects of accentual fall on phrase-final vowel duration in Japanese.
abstract: This study explores the effect of accentual fall on phrase-final vowel duration in read declarative sentences of Standard Japanese. The results show that an intonational phrase-final vowel is significantly shorter when the final phrase has an accentual pitch fall than when it does not. Previous studies have reported a vowel-shortening effect for the final position of Japanese declarative sentences; the new finding reported in this paper is that this shortening effect is enhanced by the pitch fall of an accent in the sentence-final phrase.
authors.affiliation: Kansai University, Suita City, Japan. y_new-horizon_m7@hcn.zaq.ne.jp
authors.forename: Yôko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Erickson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014041:Tokyo