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- Title
PROMINENCE AND GEMINATION IN INGRIAN.
- Authors
GORDON, MATTHEW
- Abstract
This paper reports results of an acoustic study of stress and length patterns in Ingrian, a Finnic language closely related to Finnish. Primary stressed syllables were found to have higher fundamental frequency than both secondary stressed and unstressed syllables. Intensity and duration played a limited role in signaling stress. In keeping with published descriptions, consonants preceding a long vowel in the second syllable of the primary stress foot were lengthened. The lengthening effect was greater in consonants targeted by the process of primary gemination (Finnish yleisgeminaatio), i.e. those in CVCVV feet in disyllabic words, than those affected by other gemination phenomena applying in Ingrian.
- Subjects
EMPHASIS (Linguistics); INGRIAN language; FINNIC languages; SYLLABLE (Grammar); VOWELS; CONSONANTS
- Publication
Linguistica Uralica, 2009, Vol 45, Issue 2, p81
- ISSN
0868-4731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3176/lu.2009.2.01