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Segment duration in Finnish as imitated by Russians
Mikko KuronenPertti HurmeDufva HanneleRiikka Ullakonojasubject
Duration (music)media_common.quotation_subjectIndex (typography)Language acquisitionPsychologyImitationLinguisticsmedia_commondescription
The paper reports findings of a study in which Russian speakers without any prior knowledge of Finnish imitated utterances in that language, and, in particular, how they succeeded in imitating segmental duration. The data was analysed using acoustic measurements of segment duration as well as auditory analysis by four judges. The results show that Russian speakers faced difficulties in imitating some aspects of the complicated Finnish quantity system. On the other hand, many of the imitated words were judged as comprehensible. Index Terms: duration, length, Finnish, imitation, language learning
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-20 |