The degree of instrusiveness of parasitic sounds in media speech Cover Image

Míra rušivosti parazitních zvuků v řeči mediálních mluvčích
The degree of instrusiveness of parasitic sounds in media speech

Author(s): Radek Skarnitzl, Pavel Machač
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: epenthetic schwa; perception; preglottalization; pronunciation; speech in the media

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes the intrusive effect of what have been called parasitic sounds, namely preglottalization and the epenthetic schwa. These parasitic sounds seem to be, from the linguistic point of view, non-systemic and unjustified, but occur relatively frequently in Czech media speech, while not so often in ordinary situations. The results indicate that both phenomena are perceived by listeners as intrusive, though to a different extent, based on both the segment to which they are attached and on selected acoustic properties.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 3-14
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech