Timing of high pitch in Munster Irish
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0034/000576Keywords:
phonetics, prosody, turning points, bottom-upAbstract
A turning-point analysis of intonation in Munster Irish (Gaelic) investigated alignment between regions of increased F0 and metrically strong syllables defined by increased intensity. The data comprised recordings of story reading and retelling from 20 L1 speakers recorded in 1928 (archived and digitised) and 14 speakers recorded in 2020–2021, with a total of 8,487 F0 contours analysed. Results revealed geographic and diachronic variability between speakers who achieved peak pitch within ±50 ms of the strong-syllable vowel midpoint and those who preferred delays of 100 ms or more. Greater delay characterised more conservative varieties in 1928, and this pattern was reflected in changes observed between the historical and contemporary datasets.
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