Prosody in Speech and Singing
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The study deals with the question of the manifestation of the prosodic system of a language (here Estonian) in singing. Previous research has shown that durational contrasts are neutralized in the sung version of the folksongs. The present study makes a first attempt to establish whether there is a similar neutralization of prosodic oppositions with regard to melody: whether the melody of the song interacts with contrastive pitch, or whether melody overrides prosodic contrasts based on pitch in the spoken form of the language.
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