A Preliminary Study of Temporal Adaptation in Polish VC Groups

The study presents experimental data on Polish vowel durations in consonantal contexts gathered to test prosodic hypotheses. An attempt is made to verify the signif icance of the process of balancing V-to-V durations in a dyna mical model of speech rhythm applied to Polish. We report on the results of a controlled experiment followed by a qu ery of a corpus of running Polish speech, both investigating the influence of selected Polish consonants on precedi ng vowel duration.

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