Variability and Invariance in Danish Stress Group Patterns
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Nina Thorsen
Abstract
Three aspects of the fundamental frequency (F₀) pattern associated with the prosodic stress group in Standard Danish are examined in acoustic analyses of recordings by 4 speakers. (1) Evidence is presented that short stress groups will have F₀ patterns which are truncated rather than compressed editions of those found with longer stress groups. (2) The shape of the F₀ pattern can be considered basically invariant (for a given speaker) and independent of the segmental structure of the stress group, but its surface manifestation is modified by intrinsic F₀ level differences between vowels of different tongue height, and by intonational context. (3) F₀ patterns in extremely long prosodic stress groups are investigated.
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