Kari Suomi

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that Finnish listeners found it easier to detect hymy at the end of the nonsense string puhymy (where there is a harmony mismatch between the first two syllables) than in the string pyhymy where there is no mismatch.

TL;DR: The paper reports the first study that explicitly distinguishes the phonetic correlates of sentence accents from those of word stress in Finnish, and finds that the timing of f0 movements was dependent on the moraic structure of target words.

TL;DR: The results support the view that utterance-final lengthening is a universal tendency but is implemented in language-specific ways and must be learned.

TL;DR: This paper shows that the alignment of Finnish (word) stress, which is fixed and associated with the initial syllable, is similarly realized over two morae, and it is shown that segments and syllables have a reliably longer duration when they occur within the domain of the word's first three morae than when they happen outside this domain.