The results of a production experiment reveal that in general, the presence of a complex pitch pattern tends to have a lengthening effect on the target syllable. This article investigates the effects of the complexity of such a pitch pattern on the durational properties of the syllables in both languages when compared to the simpler falling pitch movement. In oxytonic words, narrow contrastive focus displays a rise-fall complex pitch gesture in the last syllable of the utterance. more In both Spanish and Catalan, narrow contrastive focus and presentational broad focus in nuclear position have different pitch accent choices, namely a rising or a falling pitch accent, respectively. In both Spanish and Catalan, narrow contrastive focus and presentational broad focus in nuclear p. Our results revealed no great differences between the two languages’ use of acoustic cues. Given that Spanish and Catalan differ greatly in the way they use vowel reduction to mark stressed positions (Catalan has a phonological process of vowel reduction that affects all vowels except and, the goal of this study is to test whether they will also differ in the way they use the other acoustic correlates (duration and intensity) to signal the presence of stress and accent. This allowed us to examine the relative strength of these correlates and see how they interacted with the presence versus absence of a pitch accent. We analyzed four acoustic correlates of stress (syllable duration, vowel quality, overall intensity, and spectral balance) in four conditions, namely, stressed and unstressed syllables in both accented and unaccented environments. more This article is concerned with the acoustic correlates that characterize stress and accent in Catalan and Spanish.
This article is concerned with the acoustic correlates that characterize stress and accent in Cat.
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