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English Speech Rhythm
Author | : Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1993-04-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027285836 |
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This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech rhythm at turn transitions is investigated. It is argued that speech rhythm serves as a metric for the timing of turn transitions in casual English conversation. The articular rhythmic configuration of a transition can be said to contextualize the next turn as, generally speaking, affiliative or disaffiliative with the prior turn. The empirical investigation suggests that speech rhythm patterns at turn transitions in everyday English conversation are not random occurrences or the result of a social-psychological adaptation process but are contextualization cues which figure systematically in the creation and interpretation of linguistic meaning in communication.
English Speech Rhythm and the Foreign Learner
Author | : Corinne Adams |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110879247 |
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Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English
Author | : Robert Fuchs |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783662478189 |
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This book addresses the question whether Educated Indian English is more syllable-timed than British English from two standpoints: production and perception. Many post-colonial varieties of English, which are mostly spoken as a second language in countries such as India, Nigeria and the Philippines, are thought to have a syllable-timed rhythm, whereas first language varieties such as British English are characterized as being stress-timed. While previous studies mostly relied on a single acoustic correlate of speech rhythm, usually duration, the author proposes a multidimensional approach to the production of speech rhythm that takes into account various acoustic correlates. The results reveal that the two varieties differ with regard to a number of dimensions, such as duration, sonority, intensity, loudness, pitch and glottal stop insertion. The second part of the study addresses the question whether the difference in speech rhythm between Indian and British English is perceptually relevant, based on intelligibility and dialect discrimination experiments. The results reveal that speakers generally find the rhythm of their own variety more intelligible and that listeners can identify which variety a speaker is using on the basis of differences in speech rhythm.
English Speech Rhythm
Author | : Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027250377 |
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This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech rhythm at turn transitions is investigated. It is argued that speech rhythm serves as a metric for the timing of turn transitions in casual English conversation. The articular rhythmic configuration of a transition can be said to contextualize the next turn as, generally speaking, affiliative or disaffiliative with the prior turn. The empirical investigation suggests that speech rhythm patterns at turn transitions in everyday English conversation are not random occurrences or the result of a social-psychological adaptation process but are contextualization cues which figure systematically in the creation and interpretation of linguistic meaning in communication.
Words Into Rhythm
Author | : D. W. Harding |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1976-11-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521212670 |
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Professor Harding assesses the rhythm in poetry and prose from a psychological standpoint.
Rhythm in Speech Prose and Verse
Author | : Jürgen Esser |
Publsiher | : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783832528454 |
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In contrast to other works, the linguistic approach to rhythm presented in this book does not start from decontextualized structures but from performance data in a bottom-up fashion. Drawing on Halliday's distinction between wording, writing, and sounding, the proposed model takes account of several levels of abstraction. Important categories for data analysis are syllable rhythm and accent rhythm, which interact to establish prominence patterns (peaks and valleys) that can be observed in spontaneous and prepared speech, readings and recitals. Excluding subjective factors of analysis, the new model offers a tool to describe the rhythmic potential of prose and verse and to evaluate rhythmic performances of reading and reciting.
Intelligibility Oral Communication and the Teaching of Pronunciation
Author | : John M. Levis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781108416627 |
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An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Speech Rhythm in Learner and Second Language Varieties of English
Author | : Robert Fuchs |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2023-09-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789811989407 |
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This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer Circles). It contributes to a better understanding of speech rhythm, which has long been recognised as an important supra-segmental category of speech, focusing on its relevance in World Englishes, Second Language Acquisition and learner varieties of English, as well as the sociolinguistic and perceptual significance of this phonological variable.