Gehen Vokalverlängerungen mit Fokusakzenten einher?
Are Vowel Extensions Accompanied by Focus Accents?

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse and to compare the vowel extension in the academic spoken texts in German and Italian. It contains corpus-based analysis of lectures, which were published on web page gewiss.uni-leipzig.de. In this study the function of vowel extension is established. Furthermore, the author of this article has attempted to answer the question, if vowel extensions are accompanied by focus accents.

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