Acoustic correlates of prominence in Nafsan

Rosey Billington; Janet Fletcher; Nicholas A Thieberger; Ben Volchok

Acoustic correlates of prominence in Nafsan

Rosey Billington, Janet Fletcher, Nicholas A Thieberger, Ben Volchok

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Though Oceanic languages are often described as preferring primary stress on penultimate syllables, many different patterns have been noted across and within language families, and may interact with segmental and phonotactic factors. This is exemplified across linguistically diverse Vanuatu. However, both impressionistic and instrumentally-based descriptions of prosodic patterns and their correlates are limited for languages of this region. This paper presents preliminary acoustic and durational results for Nafsan, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu, which suggest a preference for prominence at the right edge of words, with fundamental frequency as a primary correlate.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference
Editors	Julien Epps, Joe Wolfe, John Smith, & Caroline Jones
Place of Publication	Sydney, NSW
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
Pages	137â€“140
ISBN (Print)	2207-1296
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	The 17th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference - Sydney, Australia, Australia Duration: 1 Jan 2018 → … https://assta.org/proceedings/sst/SST-2018/SST_2018_Proceedings_Rev_A_IDX.pdf

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Conference	The 17th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference
Country/Territory	Australia
Period	1/01/18 → …
Other	4â€“7 December 2018
Internet address	https://assta.org/proceedings/sst/SST-2018/SST_2018_Proceedings_Rev_A_IDX.pdf

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Billington, Rosey ; Fletcher, Janet ; Thieberger, Nicholas A et al. / Acoustic correlates of prominence in Nafsan. Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference. editor / Julien Epps, Joe Wolfe, John Smith, & Caroline Jones. Sydney, NSW : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2018. pp. 137â€“140

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Billington, R, Fletcher, J, Thieberger, NA & Volchok, B 2018, Acoustic correlates of prominence in Nafsan. in JEJWJSCJ (ed.), Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference. Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., Sydney, NSW, pp. 137â€“140, The 17th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Australia, 1/01/18.

Acoustic correlates of prominence in Nafsan. / Billington, Rosey; Fletcher, Janet; Thieberger, Nicholas A et al.
Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference. ed. / Julien Epps, Joe Wolfe, John Smith, & Caroline Jones. Sydney, NSW: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2018. p. 137â€“140.

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