Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words

The prosodic characteristic of Malay, spoken in Malaysia, such as stress and rhythm, are understudied instrumentally. Most of the studies reported are based on auditory and perceptual observations. This study looks at the acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words in terms of its different types o...

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Main Author:	Wan Ahmad, Wan Aslynn Salwani
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English English
Published:	UPM Press 2019
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) P Philology. Linguistics
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spelling	iium-743002019-08-26T02:47:40Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/74300/ Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words Wan Ahmad, Wan Aslynn Salwani H Social Sciences (General) P Philology. Linguistics The prosodic characteristic of Malay, spoken in Malaysia, such as stress and rhythm, are understudied instrumentally. Most of the studies reported are based on auditory and perceptual observations. This study looks at the acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words in terms of its different types of morphological structures and number of syllables. To investigate this, a list comprising a) disyllabic monomorphemic words; b) polysyllabic monomorphemic words and c) polysyllabic morphologically complex words in isolation and in sentence was created. Three Malay native speakers were recruited as language informants. The measurements of the vowel durations and intensity of those target words, produced by the speakers, were then elicited from the spectrograms and analysed statistically. The findings show that: a) for vowel duration; word final lengthening is only prominent feature in both disyllabic and polysyllabic monomorphemic isolated words, whereas stem-final lengthening is found for polysyllabic monomorphemic complex words in isolation; b) for the normalised intensity, only the results for disyllabic monomorphemic target words are found to be significant, in which V1 is louder than V2. However, no other significant effects of vowel position, production type, subjects and morphological contexts are found on the normalised intensity. From this data, it can be proposed that intensity is not a robust indicator of stress in Malay. A correlation test run on these two phonetic variables also revealed no relationship between the vowel duration and the normalised intensity. This experiment indicates that words produced in isolation did show alignment of prosodic prominence with particular syllables, akin to what has been found in studies of lexical stress in other languages but, in connected speech, this alignment seem to disappear. UPM Press 2019 Book Chapter PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/74300/1/3_170419%20Identifying%20Acoustic%20Correlates%20--%20dd-comments_YNT_formatted.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/74300/7/acceptance_asylnn0001.pdf Wan Ahmad, Wan Aslynn Salwani (2019) Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words. In: Speech Research in a Malaysian Context. UPM Press. (In Press)
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spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) P Philology. Linguistics Wan Ahmad, Wan Aslynn Salwani Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words
description	The prosodic characteristic of Malay, spoken in Malaysia, such as stress and rhythm, are understudied instrumentally. Most of the studies reported are based on auditory and perceptual observations. This study looks at the acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words in terms of its different types of morphological structures and number of syllables. To investigate this, a list comprising a) disyllabic monomorphemic words; b) polysyllabic monomorphemic words and c) polysyllabic morphologically complex words in isolation and in sentence was created. Three Malay native speakers were recruited as language informants. The measurements of the vowel durations and intensity of those target words, produced by the speakers, were then elicited from the spectrograms and analysed statistically. The findings show that: a) for vowel duration; word final lengthening is only prominent feature in both disyllabic and polysyllabic monomorphemic isolated words, whereas stem-final lengthening is found for polysyllabic monomorphemic complex words in isolation; b) for the normalised intensity, only the results for disyllabic monomorphemic target words are found to be significant, in which V1 is louder than V2. However, no other significant effects of vowel position, production type, subjects and morphological contexts are found on the normalised intensity. From this data, it can be proposed that intensity is not a robust indicator of stress in Malay. A correlation test run on these two phonetic variables also revealed no relationship between the vowel duration and the normalised intensity. This experiment indicates that words produced in isolation did show alignment of prosodic prominence with particular syllables, akin to what has been found in studies of lexical stress in other languages but, in connected speech, this alignment seem to disappear.
format	Book Chapter
author	Wan Ahmad, Wan Aslynn Salwani
author_facet	Wan Ahmad, Wan Aslynn Salwani
author_sort	Wan Ahmad, Wan Aslynn Salwani
title	Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words
title_short	Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words
title_full	Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words
title_fullStr	Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words
title_full_unstemmed	Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words
title_sort	identifying acoustic correlates of stress in malay words
publisher	UPM Press
publishDate	2019
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/74300/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/74300/1/3_170419%20Identifying%20Acoustic%20Correlates%20--%20dd-comments_YNT_formatted.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/74300/7/acceptance_asylnn0001.pdf
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Identifying acoustic correlates of stress in Malay words

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