Interaction of fundamental frequency contour and segment duration in the production and perception of Norwegian
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10.2478/9788366675728-010Sammendrag
The aim of this study is to explore the interplay of fundamental frequency contour and the production and perception of segment duration in Norwegian. Production patterns were investigated in a case study involving one speaker producing isolated words and a database study analyzing speech material from 220 speakers. Measurements revealed inconsistent effects of word accent on segment duration, accent 2 vs. 1 tending to give rise to longer durations in isolated words but shorter durations in words extracted from sentence context. Regression analyses investigating the relation between f0 rise or fall in a vowel and the duration of such f0 movements showed that word accent was not a contributing factor. In a perception test, the vowel of a disyllabic word was manipulated to create a short-long vowel continuum. Manipulation of f0 contours showed that a falling vs. a flat or rising contour in the first syllable caused perceptual lengthening of the vowel. Changing the second syllable’s original rising f0 contour into a falling one shortened the first syllable perceptually when its contour was falling but had the opposite effect for a flat or rising contour. Interaction of fundamental frequency contour and segment duration in the production and perception of Norwegian