Kirčiuotų trumpųjų balsių ilginimo polinkiai 1960–2011 m. informacinėse laidose
Phenomenon of stressed short vowel lengthening in news broadcasts from 1960 to 2011

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a retrospective auditive analysis of the speech of TV and radio news. The aim of the study is to find out how frequent the lengthening of stressed short vowels is in the speech of professional voices such as journalists, news readers and hosts and how this phenomenon changes. The analysis covers more than 10 hours of news broadcasts since year 1960. The investigation has resulted in identifying the following tendencies of TV and radio news: 1) in the speech of professional voices the lengthening of stressed short vowels decreases over time; 2) the lengthening commonly affects word stems but it seems to be quite rare at the end of the words; 3) the lengthening of stressed short vowels doesn’t depend on gender of a speaker.

• Details
• Contents