Phonetics and Phonology of Glottalization in Italian
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- ISBN 9783631765760
- Weight: 446g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book combines theoretical and experimental approaches to provide a comprehensive account of glottalization in word-final syllables in Italian. The speech production study at the heart of the book sheds light on the source of glottalization, the contextual factors determining its occurrence, and the acoustic correlates which characterize its production.
Acoustic analysis of words presenting evidence of glottalization is carried out through visual inspection of the acoustic signal together with spectral analysis of voice quality. Statistical analysis of the data in the study is performed using mixed effects models, as well as tree-based methods including conditional inference trees and random forests. Results of the study have implications for cross-linguistic studies on voice quality.
Jessica Di Napoli teaches and researches at RWTH Aachen University. She holds a PhD in Phonetics from the University of Cologne and an MA in Romance linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include linguistic uses of voice quality and prosodic boundary marking.
