In the bachelor's thesis we investigated the speech rate and intonation in The Upper and Lower Carniolan dialect groups with the help of computer analysis. In the beginning, we presented and defined text-phonetic parameters of intonation and speech rate which was then followed by the empirical analysis in the second part. As a part of the research, we studied fourteen dialects, seven from The Upper Carniolan Dialect Group and seven from the Lower Carniolan Dialect Group. Recordings of eight speakers were geographically taken from different parts of the dialect areas, and were obtained through the RTV archive and The Interactive Map of Slovene Dialect Texts. We segmented, transcribed, and analysed 42.43 minutes of speech with the help of computer program Praat.
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