Toward a description of digor lexical prosody
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2024/15/0026/000651Keywords:
stress correlates, lexical prosody, vowel length, vowel intensity, Ossetic languageAbstract
In this paper, I report on the initial results of instrumental research on the lexical prosody of Digor Ossetic (Iranian ‹ Indo-European). Despite speakers of Digor having some intuition regarding the placement of stress, no consensus on its acoustic cues exists in the literature. In this study, I analyzed disyllabic and trisyllabic words with vowels of the same quality within the word form. The results show a tendency for the ultimate vowel of the word to be the longest and for the initial vowel to possess the highest intensity value, albeit trisyllabic words with weak vowels were shown to serve as an exception to the latter trend. This and other relevant acoustic patterns may support the existence of quantitative stress in Digor Ossetic.
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