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Word final aspiration as a phrase boundary cue: Data from spontaneous Swedish discourse

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Summary, in English

The Swedish sound string /at/ (graphically: att) is associated with two grammatical functions: a) (part of) a subordinate conjunction and b) as an infinitive marker. Previous studies connect final lengthening and pauses with prosodic and syntactic boundaries in spoken discourse. Following these findings, this pilot study, with 5 short spontaneous discourses from 3 male speakers shows a correlation between pauses after att, and aspiration of /t/ in att. We also show a tendency for att with aspiration to be associated with the grammatical function of subordinate conjunction. Further, looking at the distribution of aspiration in the subordinate conjunction att, and in the infinitive marker att, we are able to show a tendency for the infinitive marker to be unaspirated in the normal case, while the subordinate conjunctions are characterized by final aspiration in 40 % of the cases.

Publishing year

2001

Language

English

Pages

119-122

Publication/Series

Proceedings Eurospeech 2001

Volume

1

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

ESCA

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • aspiration
  • prosody
  • phrase boundary
  • prosodic boundary

Conference name

EUROSPEECH 2001

Conference date

2001-09-03

Status

Published

Project

  • The role of function words in spontaneous speech processing

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1018-4074