Vowel Duration in the Spanish of the Great Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica

 

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Author: Stensrud Krohn, Haakon
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publication Date:2019
Description:This paper describes an acoustic analysis of the vowel duration in Spanish words read by Spanish speaking university students from the Great Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica. The results reveal three factors in the linguistic context that increase the vowel duration in disyllabic words. Firstly, vowels in the first syllable are longer when stressed than when unstressed. Moreover, vowels in the first syllable are longer when the syllable is open than when it is closed. Finally, stressed vowels in closed syllables are longer when they are in the second syllable of the word than in the first one.
Country:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/36736
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/36736
Keyword:Costa Rican Spanish
acoustic phonetics
vowels
duration
prosody
Español de Costa Rica
fonética acústica
vocales
duración
prosodia