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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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120 discrimination tests at the word level were conducted to study
the perceptual boundary ranges of quantitative distinctions, short/long,
of vowels/consonants utilising bisyllabic synthetic nonsense words.
Eight kinds of syllable structures and three kinds of pitch and intensity
variance patterns were used. 14 subjects participated in these tests
for Japanese and Finnish. The results showed that the Japanese boundary
ranges were shorter than their Finnish counterparts in both vowels
and consonants in all structures within the segment and word. The
Finnish reached the minimum durational point of long vowels/consonants
in a shorter time than the Japanese, but the Finnish had wider prosodic
conditional variations than Japanese. The word structural differences
affected more than the prosodic conditional differences in differentiating
between short and long segments in both Finnish and Japanese.
Bibliographic reference. Isei-Jaakkola, Toshiko (2003): "Perceptual boundaries of quantity in Finnish and Japanese under the variants of pitch, amplitude, and syllable structures", In ICPhS-15, 1727-1730.