Acoustic model of stress in standard Greek and Greek dialects
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2008/02/0038/000097Keywords:
phonetics, vowels, stress, Modern Greek, Greek dialectsAbstract
The paper compares acoustic models which predict the position of stress in bisyllabic words in Greek varieties. It is shown that while in Thessalian Greek ratios of peak amplitude and F1 are the best predictors of stress, in Athenian and Cypriot Greek these are ratios of durations and f0. Furthermore, in Cypriot Greek, the morphological category of the token affects the acoustic prominence of the stressed vowel.
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