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Towards an inventory of pitch accents for read Czech

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Dubeda T.
Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
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2011
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vol. 72
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issue 1
3-12
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The present article is a tentative description of prenuclear intonation in Czech within the framework of autosegmental theory, which has been applied to Czech prosody only marginally so far. After discussing the advantages and drawbacks of this kind of stylization, it puts forward a structured set of pitch accents, elementary building blocks of sentence intonation, intended for the annotation of intonation phrases. This set was derived from phonetic analysis of read speech using the criteria of interchangeability and perceptual similarity. The analysis includes information about the frequency of pitch accents in prenuclear positions and their discoursive functions. The theoretical principles explained in the introductory part should make the article accessible even for readers with limited knowledge of current prosodic paradigms.
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Pět inspirací fonetiky

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Dubeda T.
Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
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2004
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vol. 65
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issue 3
194-202
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In the course of its evolution, phonetics has utilized both internal and external sources of inspiration. In examining different historical epochs, we discover a multitude of influences which have shaped this discipline, situated at the intersection of linguistics, physics and biology. Scholars of ancient India worked out a surprisingly accurate articulatory classification of Sanskrit sounds, centuries before the same level of progress was achieved in Europe. Their motivation was mainly the need to codify the spoken form of Sanskrit, which was declaimed aloud during religious ceremonies. In ancient Greece, phonetics was viewed through a prism of poetics, metrics and rhetoric, with sounds described by virtue of their perceptual or even aesthetic qualities. Wolfgang von Kempelen, an 18th century polyhistor and charlatan, is considered (and correctly so) to be the pioneer of speech synthesis: he constructed a speaking machine not only in order to triumph over nature, but also to verify his hypotheses concerning the production and acoustic nature of speech sounds. Later, the 19th century saw the introduction of the historical-comparative paradigm, which gave birth to a large number of diachronic observations, throwing light upon phonetic processes of various kinds. The Prague Linguistic School, designated by the epithet 'functional', introduced a novel view of phonetic phenomena, based on constraints of both the language system and its use in the speech community.
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