Table 1.
Means (standard deviations are given in parentheses) of phonetic parameters duration, fundamental frequency, and intensity of the male and female speakers from a representative sample of 24 quadruples of stimuli (2 speakers × 2 stress patterns).
| Duration in seconds | Fundamental Frequency in Hz | Intensity in dB | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stress pattern | PU | F | PU | F | PU | F | ||||||
| syllable type | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 |
| female speaker | .37 (.06) | .73 (.07) | .30 (.06) | .80 (.06) | 213 (21) | 162 (28) | 191 (11) | 189 (8.5) | 80 (1.5) | 71 (4.2) | 78 (2.1) | 77 (2.2) |
| male speaker | .47 (.05) | .76 (.06) | .34 (.06) | .83 (.07) | 129 (21) | 102 (7) | 119 (32) | 110 (11) | 79 (1.1) | 73 (2.6) | 77 (2.5) | 77 (1.4) |
The values for F0 and intensity are averaged over syllables using PRAAT (Boersma & Weenink; version 5.1.19). Each value is given for each syllable in each stress pattern (numbers indicate the syllable position within a word and stressed syllables are printed in bold).
PU: penultimate stress; F: final stress.