Author: B. Lumsden MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
English Speech Rhythm in Theory and Practice
Author: B. Lumsden MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
English speech rhythm in theory and practice
Author: English speech rhythm
Author: Betty L. MilneEnglish Speech Rhythm
Author: Elizabeth Couper-KuhlenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027250375
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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 AdamsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110879247
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Speech Rhythm in Learner and Second Language Varieties of English
Author: Robert FuchsPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811989400
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
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.
Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English
Author: Robert FuchsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3662478188
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation
Author: Okim KangPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351383981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 821
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation provides a comprehensive survey of this field covering both theoretical and practical perspectives on pronunciation. In 35 chapters contributed by leading scholars from around the world, this Handbook examines: linguistic and historical background of sound systems and theoretical issues linked to sound changes; pronunciation acquisition and factors related to speech production; pronunciation research and applications to second language pronunciation; the link between pronunciation and other language skills including perception and other socio-cultural factors; pronunciation and its relation to World Englishes. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in pronunciation.
Foreign Language Pronunciation, from Theory to Practice
Author: Zdena KráľováPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527574881
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This book comprehensively deals with foreign language pronunciation. It considers several essential issues, including the relationship between native and foreign language pronunciations, the problems of non-native learners when learning foreign language pronunciation and the factors that can positively or negatively affect its learning. The book analyses foreign language pronunciation from both the linguistic and pedagogical points of view. It will thus appeal to all foreign language learners, teachers, linguists, and methodologists.
Polyrhythmicity in Language, Music and Society
Author: Richard AndrewsPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811605661
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This book addresses the complex time relations that occur in some types of jazz and classical music, as well as in the novel, plays and poetry. It discusses these multiple levels of rhythm from a social science as well as an arts and humanities perspective. Building on his ground-breaking work in Re-framing Literacy, A Prosody of Free Verse and Multimodality, Poetry and Poetics, the author explores the world of multiple- or poly-rhythms in music, literature and the social sciences. He reveals that multi-layered rhythms are uncommon and little researched. Nevertheless, they are important to the experience of art and social situations, not least because they link physicality to feeling and to decision-making (timing), as well as to aesthetic experience. Whereas most poly-rhythmic relations are felt unconsciously, this book reveals the complex patterning that underpins the structures of feeling and of experience.