Effect of lexical stress on Bengali vowels: an acoustic analysis

dc.contributor.author	Hossain, Md Imran
dc.date.accessioned	2023-12-19T19:48:18Z
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-28T14:37:04Z
dc.date.available	2023-12-19T19:48:18Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-28T14:37:04Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12032/125049
dc.description.abstract	This study aims to characterize the influence of lexical stress on Bengali oral vowels. F1 and F2 data were collected from speech samples, using spectrum analysis, and they were transformed into Lobanov’s z scores. Results showed that the effect of lexical stress was significant, but the nature of this effect varied in different vowels: in comparison with stressed position, unstressed /ɔ/ and /ɛ/ were highly centralized, /i e o ɐ/ were moderately centralized, and /u/ remained stable. In conclusion, Bengali vowels go through phonetic transformation depending on stress structure and, thus, acoustic expression of lexical stress in Bengali appears to be rather strong.	es
dc.language.iso	bn	es
dc.publisher	Dhaka University	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics, 29-30(15), 59-84.	es
dc.subject	Bengali vowels	es
dc.subject	Lexical stress	es
dc.subject	Vowel centralization	es
dc.subject	Phonetics	es
dc.title	Effect of lexical stress on Bengali vowels: an acoustic analysis	es
dc.type	Artículo	es

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