The phonetics of suprasegmentals - Linguistics - University of ...
The phonetics of suprasegmentals - Linguistics - University of ...
The phonetics of suprasegmentals - Linguistics - University of ...
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Suprasegmentals<br />
Segmental Independence<br />
Many phonetic targets in the speech signal have a short durational<br />
window, e.g. the tongue position for [s] in the word ‘descendre’<br />
[desÃdK].<br />
Certain phonetic targets have longer duration, which may overlap<br />
separate targets in shorter durational windows. Such properties are<br />
‘suprasegmental’ if:<br />
1 <strong>The</strong>y have a sufficiently long duration which is able to span across two<br />
or more short duration windows corresponding to segments.<br />
Phonologically, they target units larger than single consonants/vowels.<br />
2 <strong>The</strong>y function independently from contrastive phonetic targets which<br />
they span across.<br />
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