Estudio acústico y perceptivo de la juntura en español venezolano con un corpus de pares mínimos

Abstract

This paper reports an acoustical and perceptual stud y of juncture in Venezuelan Spanish. The corpus is made of pairs of minimal sentences pa irs such as (los habia/lo sab ia) which differs only by the place of the juncture. Acoustic al analysis points out two acoustic cues which could play a role in determining the place of the juncture: - a slight but significant rise of F0 from the firs t to the second vowel for CV# sentence-type whereas it remains stable for CVC# type. - a weak but significant vowel lengthening for clos ed syllables. In the perceptual experiment, subjects were able to identify the sentences with 70 percent accuracy thus, showing that these weak acoustic cue s could also be used as perceptual cues.