This book attempts at a description of the sound structure of Standard Spoken Finnish,
intended for an international audience familiar with the basic concepts of phonetics …

This paper focuses on the role of the pitch cue in the perception of Estonian quantity
degrees. The significance of the tonal component is investigated through comparison of …

In everyday life, people constantly have to evaluate new information and unfamiliar
situations in order to be able to make decisions. According to Oppenheimer (2008), the …

Many languages exploit suprasegmental devices in signaling word meaning. Tone
languages exploit fundamental frequency whereas quantity languages rely on segmental …

The central goal of this study was to study how contrastive accent is realised phonetically in
three regional varieties of Standard Spoken Finnish. Speakers from the Oulu, Turku and …

This study examined the elastic behaviour of segment durations in Northern Finnish CVC2V
and CVC2C3V nonsense words produced in a constant frame sentence. The identities of C2 …

The present study investigates how listeners of Finnish and Japanese, languages with very
similar contrasts in plosive quantity (short vs. long), use language-specific phonetic …

According to the identity group interpretation of the quantity opposition in Finnish, long
vowels are perceived as two successive short vowels of the same spectral quality. Some …

A kommunikáció szempontjából fontos információt a legtöbb nyelv jelöli valamilyen módon.
Ez történhet prozódiai eszközökkel (pl. angol, német), a lényeges elem egy bizonyos …

Finnish is a Uralic language and differs in several respects from the majority of European
languages, which have constituted the point of departure for the development of most …