Original scientific paper

THE VOT OF THE HUNGARIAN VOICELESS PLOSIVES IN CAREFUL AND SPONTANEOUS SPEECH

Maria Gosy ; Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest and Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Scienccs, Budapest Hungary

Abstract

This paper aims at investigating the acoustic properties ofVOTs of the three Hungarian voice/ess stops (using the (\SL50 device) when appearing in isolation (in syllahles and in words) but a/so when occurring in spontaneous speech (5 female teachers served as subjeets). The results of the acoustic analysis show a clear dijference between careful and spontaneous speech. Bilabials and velars are signijicantly shorter in fluent speech vvhile dentals seem to be unehanged. Therefore, the actual duration ofVOTis characteristic of the place of the articulation of stops in spontaneous speech while VOTs of bilabials and dentals do not differ from each other in careful speech. Vo\vels following the stops influence the tri more in careful than in spontaneous speech, which can also be explained by the experimentally confirmed phenomenon of the ehanging quality of the present-dav Hungarian vowels into the neutral vowel. Voice onset time is a specific feature of the Hungarian plosive consonants and its values significantly differ from those of most languages in the world.

Keywords

Hungarian language; consonants; speech analysis

Hrčak ID:

174163

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/174163

Publication date:

1.3.2000.

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