LINGUISTIC AND PARALINGUISTIC FUNCTIONS OF NON-MODAL VOICE IN CONNECTED SPEECH

Non-modal voice (glottalization, breathiness, breathy voice) is examined with respect to four speech functions: vowel-related (word boundary), plosive-related, syllable-related (stød) and paralinguistic, utterance-related (phrase finality and truncation). The data are taken from 5 languages: German, English, Italian, French, Danish. They are analysed as phonatory prosodies in phrase-level phonetics and explained with reference to general principles of speech production.