DURATION AND PITCH ANCHORING AS CUES TO WORD BOUNDARIES IN GREEK

Argyro Katsika
YALE UNIVERSITY

ID 1631
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This investigation is part of a larger study of the role of fine phonetic details in word segmentation in Greek connected speech. The present paper investigates whether and how Greek speakers use durational and pitch alignment acoustic cues to mark word boundaries in identical segmental strings differing only in the word boundary affiliation. Duration modification mechanisms are evident in cuing words, while different F0 alignment is not detected.