Prosody and temporal productions in Greek
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2018/09/0005/000338Keywords:
syllable structure, onset, nucleus, coda, focus, stress, GreekAbstract
In this study, we investigated the temporal patterns of syllable onsets, nuclei, and codas in Greek. The main findings showed significant effects of stress and focus on syllable constituents, which suggest complex effects of lexical and sentence prosody on intrasyllabic constituents. Nevertheless, there was no significant effect of syllable constituents and focus on the overall syllable duration, despite the fact that consonants in the coda position differed in their intrinsic duration. This finding suggests that the syllable exercises control over the duration of intrasyllabic constituents.
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