Stress and syllable structure durations in Greek
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2012/05/0007/000213Keywords:
Greek, stress production, syllable structure, segment durations,, prosodyAbstract
This is an experimental study of segmental durations as a function of lexical stress production and syllable structure in Greek. In accordance with a production experiment, the results indicate that lexical stress production has different effects on different syllable structure constituents. Thus, the vowels are lengthened more than prevocalic consonants, whereas stress production has a shortening effect on postvocalic consonants. These results imply that vowels are the main carriers of stress distinctions in Greek with reference to duration correlates of stress production.
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