• Corpus ID: 15320071

Durational Variability of Vowel Quantity Boundary for Japanese , Finnish and Czech Speakers in Perception

@inproceedings{IseiJaakkola2009DurationalVO,
  title={Durational Variability of Vowel Quantity Boundary for Japanese , Finnish and Czech Speakers in Perception},
  author={Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola},
  year={2009}
}

• Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola
• Published 2009
• Linguistics

The discrimination tests were conducted at the word level to study the durational variability of vowel quantity boundary in perception, utilising disyllabic synthetic nonsense words. Four kinds of word structures and five kinds of pitch an d i tensity variance patterns were used. The number of the test s became 60. 21 Japanese, Finnish and Czech speakers particip ted in these tests as the subjects. The results showed tha t the overall durations of the perceptual boundary range was long est in Finnish; the count concentrated in a shorter time i n Japanese and Czech than in Finnish; in relation to word struc tures and prosodic conditions, Finnish took the longest time in all four structures; in the durational ratios within a segme nt and word, Finnish and Czech showed the similar ratios accordin g to the word structures within a word; the Finnish were inf luenced most of all the languages by all consonants; CVVCV – CVVCVV affected Finnish and Czech most of all word structures and prosodic conditions.