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Prosody of Two-Syllable Words in Jibbāli
Acoustic Description and its Interpretation
2010 Volume 2 Pages 1-17
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2010 Volume 2 Pages 1-17
This paper described the prosody of two-syllable words in Jibbāli. I analyzed the pitch, duration and intensity using Kay's Multi-Speech (ver. 2.5). As to pitch, I focused on range, median, standard deviation, and slope of pitch.
I examined the difference between doubly-stressed words (V´V´) and singly-stressed words (V´V or VV´) in Johnstone (1981). As a result, I have found out that Johnstone (1981) marked the stress(es) based primarily on intensity to which vowel duration and pitch have been incorporated. The doubly-stressed words in Johnstone (1981) appear to be most complex involving intensity, duration and pitch.
It is worth noting that a minimal-pair [˩ðji˥ɾji] 'strange' / No.17 [˥ðji˩ɾji] 'to bleed' has been found in my first fieldwork in Sultanate of Oman. I would like to collect more pairs of this sort in my ensuing fieldwork.
