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Tonal Specification of Perceptually Prominent Non-nuclear Pitch Accents in Russian

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Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2016)

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The paper deals with tonal characteristics of perceptually prominent prosodic words in the pre-nuclear part of the intonational phrase. The research is based on a 20 h part of the annotated Russian speech corpus CORPRES. Non-nuclear prominent words are grouped according to the direction of pitch movement on the stressed syllable. It is shown that the pitch accent shape on these words is highly correlated with the type of pitch movement on the nucleus. Most often, falling pre-nuclear accents occur with the rising nucleus, and rising—with the falling nucleus. Emotional or highly individual speech may contain more complex pitch movements in the pre-nuclear part (e.g. fall-rise), or a sequence of prominent words with the same pattern.

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    In these examples, model 11 has a rise-fall nuclear accent used in non-final IPs, 11b—its intensified version; 01a is a low fall used utterance-finally, 10 is a non-low fall used in non-utterance-final IPs, and 01c—a fall from a high to mid or low level often used to establish contact with the listener.

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    We use the term “a prosodic word” in its traditional sense for a content word and its clitics, which include all items that in a particular intonation unit, a phrase or an utterance, lose their lexical stress and thus form one rhythmic unit with a “properly” stressed word.

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The research is supported by Saint Petersburg State University (grant 31.37.353.2015).

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    Nina Volskaya & Tatiana Kachkovskaia

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Volskaya, N., Kachkovskaia, T. (2016). Tonal Specification of Perceptually Prominent Non-nuclear Pitch Accents in Russian. In: Ronzhin, A., Potapova, R., Németh, G. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9811. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43958-7_85

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