Dimensions of Segmental Variability: Interaction of Prosody and Surprisal in Six Languages

Contextual predictability variation affects phonological and phonetic structure. Reduction and expansion of acoustic-phonetic features is also characteristic of prosodic variability. In this study, we assess the impact of surprisal and prosodic structure on phonetic encoding, both independently of e...

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Main Authors: Zofia Malisz, Erika Brandt, Bernd Möbius, Yoon Mi Oh, Bistra Andreeva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00025/full

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