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The paper explores temporal changes within an intonational phrase in Russian. The main question we aim to answer is whether we can speak about temporal “declination” in a similar way we speak about melodic declination. In order to answer this question, we analysed stressed vowel duration in intonational phrases (IPs) of different types using a speech corpus. We have found that (1) most intonational phrases in Russian do not have temporal “declination” or “inclination” in the pre-nuclear part: the tempo is relatively stable until the nucleus, where a noticeable lengthening is observed; (2) the rarely occurring temporal “declination” or “inclination” in certain types of IPs can be considered a specific speaker’s trait; (3) the amount of lengthening on the last stressed vowel within the IP may play a role in distinguishing final and non-final IPs, rising vs. falling nuclei, but this is also speaker-specific.
Supported by the Government of Russia (President’s grant MK-406.2019.6).
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fundamental frequency, or melodic, curve.
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Rise-fall—one of the most frequent types of nuclei in Russian speech—is used in general questions and non-final IPs; the rise is realized on the stressed syllable, and the melodic peak is close to its right boundary (or sometimes even later).
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Kachkovskaia, T. (2019). Temporal “Declination” in Different Types of IPs in Russian: Preliminary Results. In: Martín-Vide, C., Purver, M., Pollak, S. (eds) Statistical Language and Speech Processing. SLSP 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11816. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31372-2_8
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