Prosodic phrasing and syntactic structure in Greek

Abstract

This is a study of prosodic phrasing in relation to syntactic structure as a function of female and male speaker’s gender as well as normal and fast speech tempo in Greek. The results indicate: (1) prosodic phrasing has a 95% identification rate; (2) prosodic phrasing has a major effect on final tonal boundaries; (3) speech tempo has a major effect on pause pro-ductions but only a marginal effect on tonal productions; (4) speaker’s gender has a major effect on both tonal and pause productions.