title: Preboundary lengthening and preaccentual shortening across syllables in a trisyllabic word in English.
abstract: This study demonstrates some new aspects of preboundary lengthening and preaccentual shortening on a test word banana in American English. Preboundary lengthening was found to be extended to the initial unstressed syllable beyond the main-stressed syllable, presenting more complexity than has previously been assumed. Preaccentual shortening was observed regardless of boundary strength or the stress pattern (trochaic vs iambic) of the following context word, suggesting that it operates globally at an utterance level. The locus of preaccentual shortening, however, was modulated by prosodic boundary: It is realized on the final vowel IP-finally but on the non-final stressed vowel IP-medially.
authors: Hanyang Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Lab, Department of English Language and Literature, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. tcho@hanyang.ac.kr
authors: Taehong
authors: T
authors: Cho
authors: Jiseung
authors: J
authors: Kim
authors: Sahyang
authors: S
authors: Kim
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013997:Time Factors; D014833:Voice Quality; D055815:Young Adult