ISCA Archive ICSLP 1990
ISCA Archive ICSLP 1990

Phonetic correlates of stress in mongolian

Jan-Olof Svantesson

In this paper I give data from standard Khalkha Mongolian on some phonetic parameters associated with stress: duration, vowel quality (as measured by formant frequencies), intensity and fundamental frequency. The conclusion is that a unified phenomenon of word stress does not exist in Mongolian.