On the Articulatory Bases of Prominence in Italian
Year: 2006
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This study reports the first results of a research aimed to investigate how segmental variation is conditioned by prosody in Italian, by examining the acoustic and articulatory properties of syllables that are prominent at different levels of the prosodic hierarchy. We examined lip movement kinematics of unstressed, stressed and nuclearly accented syllables in order to understand the kinematic characteristics of accent-induced articulatory strenghthening. The kinematic results are then interpreted within a Task Dynamics model to evaluate how prosodically-driven variation can be accounted for by a particular dynamical parameter setting in a mass-spring gestural model. 1.
Authors: Cinzia Avesani, Mario Vayra, Claudio Zmarich
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W144427143