PROSODIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CONSONANTS IN LATVIAN
Summary
The prosodie characteristics of a group of voiceless noise consonants and sonants (duration, intensity, frequency) have been examined in the phonetic context, depending on the sound position in a word (initial, medial, final) and the word position with a corresponding consonant in a phrase.
Duration and intensity depend (a) on the manner of the consonant production: the longest and most intensive are affricates, constrictives and occlusive nasal sonants; (b) on the place of the consonant production: the longest and most intensive are forelingual dental noise consonants and the bilabial sonant; (c) on positional factors.
The sonant duration is related to the type of syllabic accent. The parameters of the sonant frequency show a relatively little dependence on positional factors.
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