Are Vowel Extensions Accompanied by Focus Accents? Cover Image

Gehen Vokalverlängerungen mit Fokusakzenten einher?
Are Vowel Extensions Accompanied by Focus Accents?

Author(s): Aleksandra Molenda
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT – Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
Keywords: academic spoken texts; vowels; quantity; prosody

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse and to compare the vowel extension in the academic spoken texts in German and Italian. It contains corpus-based analysis of lectures, which were published on web page gewiss.uni-leipzig.de. In this study the function of vowel extension is established. Furthermore, the author of this article has attempted to answer the question, if vowel extensions are accompanied by focus accents.

  • Issue Year: 16/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 317-328
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: German
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