Glottalization and Timing at Utterance Final Position in Hungarian: Reading Aloud Vs. Spontaneous Speech.

Speakers tend to mark boundaries of larger prosodic units with glottalization and the deceleration of articulation rate. In the present study, the final parts of Hungarian read and spontaneous utterances were analyzed in the temporal domain (compared to the other parts of the utterances) and in terms of glottalization. We investigated how glottalization and deceleration are related to each other in read and spontaneous speech in Hungarian. We also analyzed if these phenomena depend on the speech mode. Our results revealed connection between glottalization and deceleration in spontaneous speech, whereas for read speech no such relation could be detected. Speech modes were also found to differ in the frequencies of the occurrence of glottalization and the magnitude of the deceleration at utterance final positions.