IJSRP, Volume 9, Issue 6, June 2019 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Reeny Roy, Susan Dahit and Mingmar
Abstract:
Stress provides an acoustic cue to a syllable, word or a part of a sentence to convey different intents without changing the meaning. The acoustic correlates of stress comprises of increased fundamental frequency, intensity, duration and vowel quality. These acoustic measures vary according to the structure of the language. There are no reports on the acoustic correlates of stress in Nepali.