TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of lexical stress on Bengali Vowels: An acoustic analysis
T2 - বাংলা স্বরধ্বনিতে প্রস্বনের প্রভাব: একটি ধ্বনিবৈজ্ঞানিক বিশ্লেষণ
AU - Hossain, Md Imran
N1 - Hossain, M. I. (2022). Effect of lexical stress on Bengali Vowels: An acoustic analysis. The Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics, 15(29-30), 59-84. https://hdl.handle.net/10895/4564
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Bengali vowels
KW - Vowel centralization
KW - Lexical stress
KW - Phonetics
UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373164552_Effect_of_lexical_stress_on_Bengali_Vowels_An_acoustic_analysis
M3 - Artículo
SN - 2075-3098
VL - 15
SP - 59
JO - The Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics
JF - The Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics
IS - 29-30
ER -