35.1997, FYI: Mirjam Ernestus ExLing 2024 Paris

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Date: 09-Jul-2024
From: Antonis Botinis [info at exlingsociety.com]
Subject: Mirjam Ernestus ExLing 2024 Paris


Mirjam Ernestus
Radboud University
The Netherlands

ExLing 2024 Paris keynote
The effect of sentential rhythm on the number of syllables in a word
https://exlingsociety.com/

Summary

It has been known for many years that speakers of Germanic languages
may adapt the position of the primary stress in a word in order to
avoid a stress clash with the initial stress of the next word (compare
English thirteen in twelve, thirtéén, fourtéén and in thírteen mén,
e.g. Bresnan, 1972). In this talk I will report on two studies, both
based on Dutch, that investigated whether speakers may also avoid
stress clashes by adapting the number of syllables in a word.

The first study (Ernestus & Smith, 2018) was corpus-based and focused
on the Dutch word eigenlijk `actually’, with the full pronunciation
/’ɛɪxələk/ and many monosyllabic and disyllabic pronunciation
variants. The second study (Zee, ten Bosch, & Ernestus, submitted)
focused on Dutch nouns with final stress that can be pluralized both
with the suffix -s /s/ and the suffix -en (/ə/ or /ən/). This study
consisted both of a behavioral experiment and corpus-based research.

The results from the two studies have important consequences for our
view of speech production, as they show  that both the exact
pronunciations and the morphemes of the words in an utterance are not
determined in a strict chronical order and that the speaker’s
“internal beat” plays an important role also in spontaneous speech.
The two studies also show the difficulties and opportunities of
corpus-based research as well as the difficulties of experimental
research.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology




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