Tonal alignment in three varieties of Hiberno-English
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Kalaldeh, R., Dorn A. and Ni Chasaide, A., Tonal alignment in three varieties of Hiberno-English, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2009, Brighton, UK, 6-10 September, ISCA, 2009, 2443 - 2446Download Item:
Abstract:
This pilot study investigates the tonal alignment of pre-nuclear
(PN) and nuclear (N) accents in three Hiberno-English (HE)
regional varieties: Dublin, Drogheda, and Donegal English.
The peak alignment is investigated as a function of the number
of unstressed syllables before PN and after N. Dublin and
Drogheda English appear to a have fixed peak alignment in
both nuclear and pre-nuclear conditions. Donegal English,
however, shows a drift in peak alignment in nuclear and prenuclear
conditions. Findings also show that the peak is located
earlier in nuclear and later in pre-nuclear conditions across the
three dialects.
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