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Journal articles on the topic "Syllable-timed language"

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Dimitrova, Snezhina. "Bulgarian Speech Rhythm: Stress-Timed or Syllable-Timed?" Journal of the International Phonetic Association 27, no. 1-2 (1997): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100300005399.

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Experimental work on Bulgarian speech rhythm has failed to determine which of the two “traditional” rhythmic categories the language belongs to. Using the model put forward by Dauer (1987), the present paper attempts to characterise the rhythm of Bulgarian in scalar rather than in dichotomous terms. For such an assessment, six of the components proposed by Dauer are relevant. Bulgarian is assigned two pluses (for intonation and function of accent), two zeros (for vowel duration and vowel quality) and two minuses (for syllable structure and consonant quality). According to the model, the more pluses a language has, the more likely it is that this language is “stress-timed”. From the relative rhythm “score” obtained for Bulgarian one can predict that, on a scale of rhythm, the language will occupy an intermediate position. This accounts for the contradictory conclusions reached in earlier studies. Dauer's model thus provides a useful starting point for a study of the rhythm of a given language, but it can be further improved, for example by adding zero marks for some of the components.
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Amador‐Hernandez, Mariscela. "Spanish as a “syllable‐timed” language." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 80, S1 (1986): S96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2024064.

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Lima Junior, Ronaldo Mangueira, and Guilherme Duarte Garcia. "Probing rhythmic patterns in english-L2." Journal of Speech Sciences 6, no. 1 (2017): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/joss.v6i1.14984.

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Languages are traditionally classified as mora-timed, syllable-timed or stress-timed in relation to their rhythmic patterns. The distinction between syllable-timed and stress-timed languages, however, lacks solid evidence in the literature. Syllable-timed languages typically have similar duration across unstressed and stressed syllables, whereas stress-timed languages tend to have similar inter-stress intervals, and unstressed syllables are shorter than stressed syllables. According to this categorical classification, English is a stress-timed language, thus having more reduction in unstressed vowels. Brazilian Portuguese, on the other hand, is typically classified as syllable-timed, and thus has little reduction of unstressed vowels. If these categorical rhythmic differences are correct, then acquiring the rhythmic patterns of English should be a challenging task to Brazilian learners, who are not expected to produce unstressed vowels with as much reduction as English native speakers. However, recent studies have found that the typology of rhythm is best understood as not categorical, but rather gradient, and that Brazilian Portuguese has a mixed classification, with more stress timing than would be expected from a traditional and categorical perspective. We therefore hypothesize that Brazilian learners of English should not have major difficulties reducing unstressed vowels, even when exposed to the second language later in life. To test this hypothesis, we analyze production data of native speakers of English (control group) and of Brazilian advanced learners of English.
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PATEL, ANIRUDDH D., and JOSEPH R. DANIELE. "Stress-Timed vs. Syllable-Timed Music? A Comment on Huron and Ollen (2003)." Music Perception 21, no. 2 (2003): 273–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2003.21.2.273.

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Linguists have long distinguished between ““stress-timed”” and ““syllable-timed”” languages. Using new methods for comparing rhythm in language and music (A. D. Patel & J. R. Daniele, 2003) and new data on musical rhythm from a range of nations (D. Huron & J. Ollen, 2003), one can begin to address whether stress-timed and syllable-timed languages are associated with distinctive musical rhythms. In conducting such studies, it is important to be aware of historical influences on musical rhythm that might run counter to linguistic influences. An empirical method for studying historical influences is proposed.
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MOK, PEGGY P. K. "The acquisition of speech rhythm by three-year-old bilingual and monolingual children: Cantonese and English." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 14, no. 4 (2011): 458–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728910000453.

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This study investigates the acquisition of speech rhythm by Cantonese–English bilingual children and their age-matched monolingual peers. Languages can be classified in terms of rhythmic characteristics that define English as stress-timed and Cantonese as syllable-timed. Few studies have examined the concurrent acquisition of rhythmically different languages in bilingual children. This study uses data of six Cantonese–English bilingual children around age 3;0 and compares them with six monolingual children in each language using recently developed acoustic rhythmic metrics on consonantal, vocalic and syllabic intervals. Qualitative data on syllable structure complexity and vowel quality are also included. Results on syllable duration show that monolingual children display distinct rhythmic patterns while the differences between the two languages of the bilingual children are less distinct. Bilingual English has less durational variability than monolingual English. Bilingual children have a distinct phonological developmental trajectory from monolingual children, which is manifested in acquisition delay and is influenced by language dominance. This shows that the two phonologies interact at the prosodic level.
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Kim, Myungsook, and myungjin bae. "Acoustic comparison on syllabic rates between stress-timed and syllable-timed language speakers." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141, no. 5 (2017): 3521. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4987414.

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Hu, Xin, and Haiying Du. "Korean EFL Learner’s Suprasegmental Features." English Language Teaching 16, no. 2 (2023): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v16n2p82.

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This study delves into some aspects of suprasegmental features such as syllable structure, stress, and rhythm and compares them between NS and NNS. It is investigated in spectrograms and sound waveforms that 1. On the aspect of syllable structure in English, the onset and the coda in English syllable structure are characterized to have a maximum of 3 and 4 consonant clusters, respectively. In contrast, Korean allows only 1 single consonant in onset and coda position. This cross-linguistic difference gives rise to the insertion of the neutral vowel /ɨ/ to break up the consonant clusters in English words, in which the inserted vowel forms an independent wave chunk. 2. Refer to stress in English, it is universally recognized as every single English word or sentence consist of its own stress. On the contrary, Korean lacks stress placed at the level of the word. It follows that Korean EFL learners tend to put an approximately equal prominence on every syllable in a word and to exhibit a tendency to put a strong prominence particularly on the first syllable of a word with more than 2 syllables, which is dubbed an ‘initial prominence phenomenon’in this paper. 3. In relation to English rhythm, English is certainly a stress-timed rhythm, but Korean is a syllable-timed rhythm. The core differences between the stress-timed rhythm and the syllable-timed are on the form of ‘foot’, which is established when stressed and unstressed syllables occur in relatively regular alternating patterns in sentences, led to a phenomenon of that the number of feet depends on the timing of articulation within a whole sentence. “This paper finds significance in exhibiting suprasegmental features in visualization between NS and NNS, given that these features play a more important role than segmental ones. It can also serve a milestone for future researchers in the EFL phonetic filed.”
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Law, Thomas, Ann Packman, Mark Onslow, Carol K. S. To, Michael C. F. Tong, and Kathy Y. S. Lee. "Rhythmic speech and stuttering reduction in a syllable-timed language." Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 32, no. 10 (2018): 932–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2018.1480655.

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Barry, William, and Bistra Andreeva. "Cross-language similarities and differences in spontaneous speech patterns." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 31, no. 1 (2001): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100301001050.

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Quasi-spontaneous dialogues from six languages which, according to recent discussion of rhythmic types, belong to three rhythmic groups – Russian and Bulgarian as ‘stress-timed’, Italian and Greek as ‘syllable-timed’ and Polish and Czech as an intermediate ‘mixed’ type – were examined for the following segmental reduction phenomena: reduction of consonant clusters, weakening of consonant articulation, residual properties from elided consonants in the original context segments, phonetic schwa-isation and syllable elision. The hypothesis tested was that there are comparable reduction phenomena in all languages since all languages allow for variation in the time and effort invested in any given part of an utterance as a means to support the relative weight of elements within the information structure. This hypothesis was borne out in principle, though there were a small number of exceptions across the six languages to the occurrence of reduction types examined.
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BARBOSA, Plínio Almeida. ""Syllable-timing in Brazilian Portuguese": uma crítica a Roy Major." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 16, no. 2 (2000): 369–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44502000000200006.

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A tese de R. Major, segundo a qual haveria evidências para se considerar o português brasileiro (PB) como "stress-timing" ou tendendo para tal, é rediscutida. As questões fonético-fonológicas suscitadas pela dicotomia de línguas "stress-timed" e "syllable-timed" e o suposto isocronismo absoluto são apresentadas sob um prisma estritamente prosódico-temporal. Um modelo empregando dois osciladores acoplados (acentual e silábico) possibilita a caracterização biparamétrica (taxa de elocução e força de acoplamento) de um conjunto arbitrário de frases de uma língua e permite mostrar que, em PB, há alto grau de "syllable-timing". À luz de uma análise fonética mais cuidadosa dos fatores ligados ao ritmo, mostra-se que os argumentos apresentados por Major para justificar "stress-timing" em PB são completamente equivocados.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Syllable-timed language"

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Law, Thomas Ka Tung. "Stuttering in a Syllable-Timed Tone Language." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22882.

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Stuttering is a developmental speech disorder affecting the fluency of speech. The cause of stuttering is not fully understood. Evidence has suggested an underlying speech neural processing deficit that is influenced by linguistic and environmental factors. A number of studies have identified the factors in spoken language that are associated with stuttering. However, most studies are conducted in languages that have a stress-timed language rhythm or non-tone languages. There is a dearth of research in syllable-timed languages and tone languages. Cantonese is one of the seven dialects of Modern Chinese. It possesses two unique linguistic features that are of theoretical value to understanding any causal model of stuttering: syllable-timed language rhythm and lexical tone. Syllable-timed language rhythm contains properties of a powerful fluency-inducing condition, and lexical tone could be related to stuttering due to the established evidence on syllabic stress and stuttering. These two factors influence the speech motor demands of speech production, which may directly be responsible for triggering stuttering. This thesis begins with a brief overview of stuttering. The current evidence on the association of stuttering and features of spoken language is then reviewed, followed by an introduction to Cantonese. These form the foundation to understand the linguistic features of stuttering in Cantonese. This thesis contains three original studies on the nature of stuttering in Cantonese. These studies investigated the behavioural features of stuttering in Cantonese, the role of lexical tone in triggering stuttering, and the role of syllable-timed language rhythm and stuttering in Cantonese. The findings of these studies showed that stuttering in Cantonese consists of a range of behavioural features and complexity. Further, the results not only confirmed that the speech motor effort in varying syllabic stress is important to the triggering of stuttering, but also showed that the magnitude of speech motor demands may, in fact, play a more crucial role. In conclusion, this thesis contributes to the development of the multifactorial causal models of stuttering. It also extends our knowledge in understanding the nature of stuttering in a syllable-timed tone language.
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Low, Ee Ling. "Prosodic prominence in Singapore English." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251470.

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Čížková, Irena. "Individuální charakteristiky řečového rytmu ve čtených hlasatelstvích v ruštině." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-332796.

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Personal characteristics of speech rhythm in Russian newsreading Bc. Irena Čížková Abstract An issue of individual rhythmic characteristics of particular 5 native speakers of the Russian language, newsreaders from the BBC, is described in this thesis. A research of the given 5 speech recordings was conducted based on the academic concepts created by Ramus, Mehler and Nespor, and by Low and Grabe and also by Dellwo, so through a speech rhythm research based on rhythm correlates that are related to vocalic and intervocalic intervals. The recordings were processed in an analyting program called Praat and the extracted results were then evaluated in a statistical processor called STATISTICA. These materials were used for further analysis. The recordings were analysed based on several parameters: %V (proportion of vocalic intervals in one breath group), ∆C and ∆V (standard deviation of the vocalic and consonantal interval duration), PVI-V, PVI-C (Pairwise Variability Index of the vocalic and consonantal interval duration), Varco V and Varco C (variation coefficient of the vocalic and consonantal interval duration) and the difference between duration of stressed and unstressed vowels. Three parameters that were the most successful from the speakers' ability to differentiate point of view were selected through an...
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Book chapters on the topic "Syllable-timed language"

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Gulozer, Kaine. "Boosting L2 Listening Comprehension Through Web-Based Listening Activities on Reduced Forms." In Design Solutions for Adaptive Hypermedia Listening Software. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7876-6.ch006.

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In the field of second language (L2) perception, there is a common adherence to quantitative methods to examine reduced forms (RFs). This chapter extends the field by reporting on an investigation that analyzed L2 listeners' perceptions of RFs in English from a qualitative perspective. RFs instruction through web-based activities was delivered to a total of 80 learners of English of varying proficiency for five weeks. Twenty participants reflected on their performance on RFs listening tasks and provided justifications for their perceptions of the target RFs. Qualitative analysis revealed that the RFs that influenced L2 learners' perceptions of RFs were linking, pause phenomena, and assimilation. The results of using such qualitative methodology highlights the important role that RFs plays in perception judgements in syllable-timed languages such as Turkish, a factor which has not always been given much prominence in previous L2 fluency quantitative research.
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Conference papers on the topic "Syllable-timed language"

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Prakash, Jeena J., and Hema A. Murthy. "An analysis of the distribution of syllables in prosodic phrases of stress-timed and syllable-timed languages." In Speech Prosody 2016. ISCA, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2016-11.

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