Author: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027285837
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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
Author: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027285837
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027285837
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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
Author: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Speech Rhythm in American English
Author: Heejin Kim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781109885248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Speech rhythm has been recognized for its critical role in human speech understanding, in language acquisition, and in the development of speech technology, but researchers do not yet have a complete account about what prosodic unit serves as a basic rhythmic unit in a language and how rhythmic manifestation is related to the prosodic phrasing of a language.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781109885248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Speech rhythm has been recognized for its critical role in human speech understanding, in language acquisition, and in the development of speech technology, but researchers do not yet have a complete account about what prosodic unit serves as a basic rhythmic unit in a language and how rhythmic manifestation is related to the prosodic phrasing of a language.
English Speech Rhythm and the Foreign Learner
Author: Corinne Adams
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110879247
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110879247
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Intonation of American English
Author: Kenneth Lee Pike
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This study explains the structure of the English intonation system in relation to the structural systems of stress, pause, and rhythm.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This study explains the structure of the English intonation system in relation to the structural systems of stress, pause, and rhythm.
Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English
Author: Robert Fuchs
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Intelligibility, Oral Communication, and the Teaching of Pronunciation
Author: John M. Levis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416624
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416624
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Speech Sounds and Rhythm of American English
Author: Hazel P. Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Music, Language, Speech, and Brain
Author: Johan Sundberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Speech/language and music are the two main forms of systematic human communication using acoustic signals. This implies that there are interesting and thought-provoking parallels between these areas, which may contribute towards our understanding of the processing and perception of auditory signals. This book reviews the relevant research fields, and includes speech and music examples on CD to help the reader to appreciate the sound characteristics discussed. Areas covered are: descriptions of music and language; speech and music performance; voice and instruments; cognition and perception; neurophysiology; combining speech and music.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Speech/language and music are the two main forms of systematic human communication using acoustic signals. This implies that there are interesting and thought-provoking parallels between these areas, which may contribute towards our understanding of the processing and perception of auditory signals. This book reviews the relevant research fields, and includes speech and music examples on CD to help the reader to appreciate the sound characteristics discussed. Areas covered are: descriptions of music and language; speech and music performance; voice and instruments; cognition and perception; neurophysiology; combining speech and music.
American Speech Sounds and Rhythm Advanced
Author: Hazel P. Brown
Publisher: Audio-Forum
ISBN: 9781579700744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The third in a series, this course is intended primarily for the foreign-born learner who can read and understand English but who is unable to make himself understood because of incorrect stress and faulty rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is concentrated on pronunciation and rhythm. This advanced level is also designed for Americans to improve their speech patterns.
Publisher: Audio-Forum
ISBN: 9781579700744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The third in a series, this course is intended primarily for the foreign-born learner who can read and understand English but who is unable to make himself understood because of incorrect stress and faulty rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is concentrated on pronunciation and rhythm. This advanced level is also designed for Americans to improve their speech patterns.