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FORMANT FREQUENCIES OF STANDARD SLOVENE VOWELS

Peter Jurgec ; Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language SRC SASA, Ljubljana Slovcnia

Sažetak

Formant J'requencies of standard Slovene have already heen analvsed by several phoneticians (Lehiste, 1961; Toporišič, 1975; Petek et ah, 1996; Ozbič. 1998; Tivadar, 2004a). The aim of this study is to present a more in-depth view of stressed vowe/s and their formant frequencies, in order to address some of the prob/ems that have not yet been considered. A 24l-word corpus of one- to threesvllables was compiled according to suprasegmental criteria (stress, tone, duration). Ten subjeets were ehosen, representative by sex, tone contrast, dialect of origin, etc. F1-F4 of a total of5,960 vowe1s were measured using Praat LPCanalysis software. A total of 21,220 readings, or 95.41% were acknowledged. Data were averaged and analvsed statistica/lv (ANOVA). The measurements confirm that lexical tone does not influence formant frecpiencies of most vowels to any statistical significance (see F1 *F2 vowel space in Fig. 3). However, there are statistica/lv significant differences among accent types of/e/, /a/, Jo/, and /u/. IVhile dispersion of /u/ is most probablv induced by segmenta/ variab/es, the differentiation of/e/, /a/ and /o/ can be exp/ained by comparing two varieties of SS, the tonal and the non-tonal. In the latter, the contrast bet\veen the tones is statislical/y insignificant (fortheoming-a). Separate vowel spaces and values are given for female and male speakers (Fig. 4).

Ključne riječi

vowel formant frecjuencv, vowels, lexical tone, phonetic differences, the Slovene language, the standard language

Hrčak ID:

173752

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/173752

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