2013.08.29 09:05
음성음운형태론연구 19집 2호 Yoon, Tae-Jin
Yoon, Tae-Jin. 2013. A corpus-based study of downstep in English. Studies in
Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 19.2. 275-294.
This paper presents evidence from acoustic analysis for a categorical distinction between downstepped and nondownstepped
high-toned pitch accents (H* vs. !H*) in American English. The present
study offers an explanation for the contradictory findings from prior acoustic studies
of downstep, which call into question the status of the downstepped accent in
American English as a legitimate prosodic category. It is shown in the paper that the
experimental findings from naturally occurring speech corpus provide evidence
for !H* as a distinct prosodic category. (Cheongju University)