Use of nonsense-syllable mimicry in the study of prosodic phenomena

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Abstract
The technique of nonsense-syllable mimicry of natural utterances has many advantages in the study of prosodic phenomena, especially duration. In analytic studies, the elimination of segmental effects as a factor makes data collection much more efficient, and requires only one segmentation criterion. In perceptual studies, the technique eliminates lexical information without unnatural distortions of the signal. In a series of validation experiments, we have found that (1) the patterns of duration obtained by using this technique were stable and reproducible within and across speakers; and (2) mimicry of different natural models with identical stress patterns and constituent structures produced nearly indistinguishable nonsense-syllable duration patterns.

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