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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 p

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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

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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 in

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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, voca

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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 Engl

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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 i

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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 al

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Zhang, Ling. "Syllable isochrony and the prosodic features of stop syllables in Cantonese." Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 23, no. 1 (2021): 20–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00098.zha.

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Abstract Cantonese is a syllable-timed language: that is, the syllable is the isochronous unit of speech. However, in Cantonese, there is a type of closed syllable with the stop codas [-p], [-t], or [-k] (i.e. syllables with the so called “entering-tones”) which sound much shorter than other syllables. On the surface, the shorter duration of stop syllables and the general prosodic feature of syllable-isochrony seem to conflict. This study conducted acoustic investigations of stop syllables in Cantonese in different contexts (i.e. in isolated form, in disyllabic words, and in disyllabic words l

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Peña, Jailyn M. "Stød Timing and Domain in Danish." Languages 7, no. 1 (2022): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages7010050.

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This study investigates the timing of stød, a type of phonological nonmodal phonation related to creaky voice in Danish, relative to the syllable. Stød-bearing syllables are characterized by high fundamental frequency (F0) and modal phonation at the beginning of the syllable followed by nonmodal, often creaky phonation and low F0 towards the end of the syllable (the stød phase proper). However, the timing of these two phases relative to the syllable and to each other has been debated. To investigate this, F0 throughout the word and the timing of the stød phase proper relative to the syllable w

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Gashaw, Anegagregn. "Rhythm in Ethiopian English: Implications for the Teaching of English Prosody." International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies 5, no. 1 (2017): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.5n.1p.13.

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In order to verify that English speeches produced by Ethiopian speakers fall under syllable-timed or stress-timed rhythm, the study tried to examine the nature of stress and rhythm in the pronunciation of Ethiopian speakers of English by focusing on one language group speaking Amharic as a native language. Using acoustic analysis of the speeches recorded from four Amharic speaking learners and two Canadian native speakers of English, comparison was made between pitch contours and length of speeches between speech samples of Amharic speakers with native speakers who are used in this study as a

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Levitt, Andrea G., and Jennifer G. Aydelott Utman. "From babbling towards the sound systems of English and French: a longitudinal two-case study." Journal of Child Language 19, no. 1 (1992): 19–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900013611.

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ABSTRACTThe utterances of one French and one American infant at 0;5, 0;8, 0;11, and 1;2 were transcribed and acoustically analysed for syllable duration and vowel formant values. Both general and language-specific effects emerged in the longitudinal study. Initial similarities in the consonantal repertoires of both infants, increasing control in producing targetF1andF2values, and developmental changes in babbling characteristics over time seem to reflect universal patterns. Yet the babbling of the infants differed in ways that appear to be due to differences in their language environments. Shi

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Bóna, Judit, and Anna Kohári. "Rate vs. rhythm characteristics of cluttering with data from a “syllable-timed” language." Journal of Fluency Disorders 67 (March 2021): 105801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2020.105801.

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Olivio, Ann Marie. "Exploring the speech rhythm continuum." Journal of Speech Sciences 1, no. 2 (2021): 3–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/joss.v1i2.15022.

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In current speech rhythm research, the traditional search for isochrony and speech rhythm classes has been replaced with a focus on uncovering the acoustic correlates of rhythm in the speech signal (Ramus, Nespor, and Mehler 1999, Grabe and Low 2002, Cummins 2002). In this paper, I present findings from a study in which I describe speech rhythm in a language whose rhythm had not been previously studied—Ashanti Twi (Niger-Congo, Kwa). Additionally, I test the validity of claims made about the utility of various rhythm metrics. Two native speakers of Ashanti Twi participated in the study. Each s

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Hanson, Josef. "Rhythmic Variability in Language and Music of Latino and Latino-Inspired Composers." Music Perception 34, no. 4 (2017): 482–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2017.34.4.482.

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Recently, researchers have investigated the influence of composers’ native speech prosody on the variability of rhythmic patterns found in their music. The normalized pairwise variability index (nPVI) provides a relative criterion for comparing the contrastiveness of successive durations in language and music. This study extends prior research by assessing rhythmic relationships in Latino-inspired and traditional Western art music written by six composers whose native languages are either stress-timed (Copland, Glinka, Liszt) or syllable-timed (Ponce, Villa-Lobos, Albéniz). After analysis of 5

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Park, Ha Lim. "Stress and vowel reduction by Korean Learners of English." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 151, no. 4 (2022): A43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0010597.

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Having a foreign accent is unavoidable for late second or foreign language learners. The reason is that physical changes in the brain influence learning a variety of aspects in a new language system (Flege, 1987; Patkowski, 1990). In other words, a well-established first language mediates the acquisition of a second language. The mediation can be called cross-linguistics influence or negative transfer (Sharwood Smith and Kellerma, 1986). In terms of suprasegmental aspects of pronunciation, vowel reduction occurring in stress-timed languages such as English but lacking in syllable-timed languag

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Thomas, Erik R., and Phillip M. Carter. "Prosodic rhythm and African American English." English World-Wide 27, no. 3 (2006): 331–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.27.3.06tho.

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Prosodic rhythm was measured for a sample of 20 African American and 20 European American speakers from North Carolina using the metric devised by Low, Grabe and Nolan (2000), which involves comparisons of the durations of vowels in adjacent syllables. In order to gain historical perspective, the same technique was applied to the ex-slave recordings described in Bailey, Maynor and Cukor-Avila (1991) and to recordings of five Southern European Americans born before the Civil War. In addition, Jamaicans, Hispanics of Mexican origin who spoke English as their L2, and Hispanics speaking Spanish se

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BUTLER, Joseph, and Sónia FROTA. "Emerging word segmentation abilities in European Portuguese-learning infants: new evidence for the rhythmic unit and the edge factor." Journal of Child Language 45, no. 6 (2018): 1294–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000918000181.

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AbstractWord segmentation plays a crucial role in language acquisition, particularly for word learning and syntax development, and possibly predicts later language abilities. Previous studies have suggested that this ability develops differently across languages, possibly affected by the languages’ rhythmic properties (Rhythmic Segmentation Hypothesis) and target word location in the prosodic structure (Edge Hypothesis). The present study investigates early word segmentation in a language, European Portuguese, that exhibits both stress- and syllable-timed properties, as well as strong cues to

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KAMINSKAÏA, SVETLANA, JEFF TENNANT, and ALEXANDER RUSSELL. "Prosodic Rhythm in Ontario French." Journal of French Language Studies 26, no. 2 (2015): 183–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959269515000307.

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ABSTRACTThis article presents the results of a study of rhythm in Ontario French in local minority and majority contexts. To determine whether French in a minority situation shows a less syllabic rhythm due to English influence than it does in a majority situation, we used the following rhythm measurements: %V, ΔV, ΔC, VarcoV, VarcoC and nPVI-V. The results suggest no effect of language contact on the minority setting data where we find even more syllable-timed rhythm than in the majority variety. In addition, we observe that women and older speakers exhibit a more syllabic rhythm than men and

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Yurtbasi, Metin. "The role of the secondary stress in teaching the English rhythm." Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 7, no. 3 (2018): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v7i3.2995.

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In the phonological literature in English, which is a stress-timed language, the existence of at least three levels of stress is usually taken for granted. Words, phrases, utterances or sentences have a prominent element in one of their syllables, which usually correlates with a partner in the same unit, called the secondary stress. It so happens that in multi-syllable words or groups bearing more than two content words, there is also a tertiary stress. Function words neighbouring the content words are usually not stressed or they are reduced. In standard writing, the primary stress is indicat

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Sarmah, Priyankoo, Divya Verma Gogoi, and Caroline R. Wiltshire. "Thai English." English World-Wide 30, no. 2 (2009): 196–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.30.2.05sar.

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We explore two aspects of English spoken by native speakers of Thai: rhythm and the vowel system, and compare each to the substrate language Thai, to target varieties of English, and to two New Englishes in Asia. Data was collected from a group of Thai speakers who participated in an interview in English, and who read a Thai paragraph, and English words, sentences and a paragraph. For rhythm, we measured the “Pairwise Variability Index” (nPVI, Grabe and Low 2002) and the proportion of time in an utterance devoted to vowels (%V, Ramus, Nespor and Mehler 1999) of Thai read speech, and English sp

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Trajkovski, Natasha, Cheryl Andrews, Mark Onslow, Ann Packman, Sue O’Brian, and Ross Menzies. "Using syllable-timed speech to treat preschool children who stutter: A multiple baseline experiment." Journal of Fluency Disorders 34, no. 1 (2009): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2009.01.001.

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Roncaglia-Denissen, M. Paula, Maren Schmidt-Kassow, Angela Heine, and Sonja A. Kotz. "On the impact of L2 speech rhythm on syntactic ambiguity resolution." Second Language Research 31, no. 2 (2014): 157–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658314554497.

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In an event-related potential (ERP) study we investigated the role of age of acquisition (AoA) on the use of second language rhythmic properties during syntactic ambiguity resolution. Syntactically ambiguous sentences embedded in rhythmically regular and irregular contexts were presented to Turkish early and late second language (L2) learners of German and to German monolingual controls. Regarding rhythmic properties, Turkish is syllable-timed and prefers the iamb as its metric foot, while German is stress-timed, relying on the trochee. To utilize rhythm during the processing of syntactic ambi

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Ordin, Mikhail, Leona Polyanskaya, David Maximiliano Gómez, and Arthur G. Samuel. "The Role of Native Language and the Fundamental Design of the Auditory System in Detecting Rhythm Changes." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 62, no. 4 (2019): 835–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2018_jslhr-s-18-0299.

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Purpose We investigated whether rhythm discrimination is mainly driven by the native language of the listener or by the fundamental design of the human auditory system and universal cognitive mechanisms shared by all people irrespective of rhythmic patterns in their native language. Method In multiple experiments, we asked participants to listen to 2 continuous acoustic sequences and to determine whether their rhythms were the same or different (AX discrimination). Participants were native speakers of 4 languages with different rhythmic properties (Spanish, French, English, and German) to unde

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Berg, Thomas. "Phonological processing in a syllable-timed language with pre-final stress: Evidence from spanish speech error data." Language and Cognitive Processes 6, no. 4 (1991): 265–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01690969108406945.

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Wu, Yan. "Review of Chinese English Learners’ Prosodic Acquisition." English Language Teaching 12, no. 8 (2019): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v12n8p89.

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The traditional focus of English phonetic teaching in China has consistently been on the segmental acquisition, which is mainly highlighting the pronunciation of vowels and consonants, while its suprasegmental knowledge in speech naturalness, coherence and understanding is relatively insufficient. In addition, Chinese students have a serious problem in the rhythm of English language, which is mainly influenced by the characteristics of the syllable-timed in their mother tongue rather than in a stress-timed way. This study reviews the academic works of the nearly 15 years in the development of

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FAGYAL, ZSUZSANNA, and EIVIND TORGERSEN. "Prosodic rhythm, cultural background, and interaction in adolescent urban vernaculars in Paris: case studies and comparisons." Journal of French Language Studies 28, no. 2 (2018): 165–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959269518000066.

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ABSTRACTThis article presents the results of a corpus study of prosodic rhythm in the urban vernaculars of 24 female and male adolescents featured in the MPF corpus (Gardner-Chloros et al., 2014). Using canonical rhythm metrics, among them the normalized Pairwise Variability Index (nPVI), we show that there is no clear effect of gender and only a small effect of cultural background on the variability of adjacent vocalic and consonantal duration intervals, typically correlated with more or less syllable-timed rhythm. However, female and male teens with multicultural background who clearly domin

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Gibson, Todd A., and Carolina Bernales. "Polysyllabic shortening in Spanish-English bilingual children." International Journal of Bilingualism 24, no. 2 (2019): 437–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006919846426.

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Aims and objectives: Polysyllabic shortening is thought to contribute to the perception of stress-timed rhythm in some languages. Little is known about its use in the speech of children exposed to a language that incorporates it more frequently (e.g. English) and one that incorporates it less frequently (e.g. Spanish). The purpose of the current investigation was to explore polysyllabic shortening in bilingual children’s two languages compared to monolingual Spanish and English comparison groups. Method/Design: We performed a group-level, cross-sectional study comparing the magnitude of polysy

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Jauregi, Oroitz. "Euskararen erritmoa neurtzen." Fontes Linguae Vasconum, no. 132 (December 17, 2021): 257–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.35462/flv132.1.

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This paper offers a rhythm analysis of the Basque language. Several authors argued that Basque has characteristics of syllable-timed languages, and this work is an exercise in favor of that statement. The main contribution of the study presented here is the realization of a rhythm analysis using rhythmic correlates in Basque. Different Basque varieties have been chosen to measure their rhythm. Basque varieties considered representative of areas where there may be prosodic differences were selected, in order to see the possible inter-dialectal differences and the rhythmic characteristics of the

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Carter, Phillip M., Lydda López Valdez, and Nandi Sims. "New Dialect Formation Through Language Contact." American Speech 95, no. 2 (2020): 119–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-7726313.

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The situation of sustained contact between Spanish and English in Miami during the past half century provides a rare opportunity to study contact-induced language change in an ecological context in which speakers of the immigrant language (i.e., Spanish) have become the numerical majority. The study reported here is designed to track the phonetic and prosodic influences of Spanish on the variety of English emerging among second-generation Miami-born Latinx speakers of various national origin backgrounds by examining a suite of variables shown in prior studies to exhibit Spanish substrate influ

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Verbeni, Vincenzo. "Speech Rhythm in English and Italian: an Experimental Study on Early Sequential Bilingualism." Research in Language 20, no. 1 (2022): 53–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.20.1.04.

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The study investigates the dynamics of speech rhythm in early sequential bilingual children who have access to Italian-English immersion programs. The research focused on the Italian and English semi-spontaneous narrative productions of 9 students, aged between 6;7 and 10;11 and distributed across three different classes (Year 1, Year 3, Year 5). Their speech was recorded and subject to an interval-based analysis via computation of %V/ΔC, PVI and Varco metrics. The retrieved metrics underwent within-group and between-group one-way ANOVAs in order to identify valuable cross-linguistic variation

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TOMIĆ, Kristina. "Temporal Parameters of Spontaneous Speech in Forensic Speaker Identification in Case of Language Mismatch: Serbian as L1 and English as L2." Comparative Legilinguistics 32 (December 6, 2017): 117–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/cl.2017.32.5.

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The purpose of the research is to examine the possibility of forensic speaker identification if question and suspect sample are in different languages using temporal parameters (articulation rate, speaking rate, degree of hesitancy, percentage of pauses, average pause duration). The corpus includes 10 female native speakers of Serbian who are proficient in English. The parameters are tested using Bayesian likelihood ratio formula in 40 same-speaker and 360 different-speaker pairs, including estimation of error rates, equal error rates and Overall Likelihood Ratio. One-way ANOVA is performed to

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Shockey, Linda, and Małgorzata Ćavar. "Roadrunners and Eagles." Research in Language 11, no. 1 (2013): 97–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10015-012-0012-x.

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Our previous research on perception of gated casual English by university students suggests that ceteris paribus, Polish students are much more accurate than Greeks. A recent pilot study of casually-spoken Polish leads us to the conclusion that many shortcuts found in English are also common in Polish, so that similar perceptual strategies can be used in both languages, though differing in detail. Based on these preliminary results, it seems likely that perceptual strategies across languages tend towards the “eagle” approach - where a birds-eye view of the acoustic terrain without too much emp

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Frota, Sónia, Charlotte Galves, Marina Vigário, Verónica Gonzalez-Lopez, and Bernadete Abaurre. "The phonology of rhythm from Classical to Modern Portuguese." Journal of Historical Linguistics 2, no. 2 (2012): 173–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.2.2.02fro.

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The prosodic change that has been reported to have occurred from Classical to Modern Portuguese is investigated by means of a new approach to the study of rhythm in language change. Assuming that rhythm is a by-product of the presence/absence of a set of properties in a given linguistic system, we computed frequency information on rhythm-related properties from written texts of the 16th to the 19th centuries, by means of the electronic tool FreP. Results show a change in the distributions of properties related to word stress and prosodic word shape after the 16th century, indicating that the p

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HUANG, Karen. "Phonological Identity of the Neutral-tone Syllables in Taiwan Mandarin: An Acoustic Study." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 8, no. 2 (2018): 9–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.8.2.9-50.

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Taiwan Mandarin, one of the more syllable-timed dialects of Mandarin, has fewer unstressed syllables than Standard Mandarin. Acoustic analyses show that the supposedly unstressed syllables—neutral-tone syllables—in Taiwan Mandarin behave differently from those of Standard Mandarin. Unlike Standard Mandarin, these syllables do not raise their pitch after Tone 3. They have a distinct static mid-low pitch target and the target is implemented with a stronger articulatory strength. Moreover, acoustic analyses demonstrate that not all of these “unstressed syllables” are unstressed. The phonetic evid

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Robles-Puente, Sergio. "El euskera como lengua de ritmo intermedio en el continuo isosilábico-isomoraico: una comparación con el español y el japonés / Basque as a language with intermediate rhythm in the isosyllabic-isomoraic continuum: A comparison with Spanish and Japanese." Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo" 53, no. 1/2 (2021): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/asju.22413.

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The current study employs multiple techniques (C%, V%, DC, DV, nPVI C, nPVI V, Varco DC, Varco DV) designed to detect rhythmic similarities and differences in order to compare the linguistic rhythm of Basque to those of Spanish and Japanese. The analysis of the productions of 24 Spanish/Basque bilinguals (twelve with Basque as their L1 and twelve as their L2), and nine native speakers of Japanese revealed that, although Spanish and Basque have generally been considered syllable-timed languages, the latter resembles moraic languages due to the length and variability of its vocalic intervals. At

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Maskikit-Essed, Raechel, and Carlos Gussenhoven. "No stress, no pitch accent, no prosodic focus: the case of Ambonese Malay." Phonology 33, no. 2 (2016): 353–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675716000154.

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Varieties of Malay, including Indonesian, have been variously described as having word stress on the penultimate syllable, as having variable word stress and as having a phrase-final pitch accent without word stress. In Ambonese Malay, the alignment of sentence-final pitch peaks fails to support the existence of either word stress or phrase-final pitch accents. Also, the shape of its pitch peaks fails to vary systematically with the information status of the phrase-final word. The two intonation melodies of the language include phrase-final boundary-tone complexes which do not associate with a

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Silva Jr, Leônidas J., and Ester M. Scarpa. "STRESS CLASH RESOLUTION IN ENGLISH AS L1 AND L2." PROLÍNGUA 14, no. 1 (2019): 79–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1983-9979.2019v14n1.48984.

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This paper aims to analyze which strategy speakers of English as L1 and Brazilian speakers of English as L2 use to solve stress clash, a phenomenon in which two syllables bearing primary stress are adjacent in different words forming a phonological phrase such as [thirteen men]. The representation of stress clash, as well as the operation that allows its undoing, is one of the justifications whereby Liberman & Prince (1977) propose the metrical grid. The clash depends on information about the metrical level in which it occurs. The simple phonetic adjacency is not enough to characterize a c

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Harris, Michael J., and Stefan Th Gries. "Measures of speech rhythm and the role of corpus-based word frequency: a multifactorial comparison of Spanish(-English) speakers." International Journal of English Studies 11, no. 2 (2011): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2011/2/149621.

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In this study, we address various measures that have been employed to distinguish between syllable and stress- timed languages. This study differs from all previous ones by (i) exploring and comparing multiple metrics within a quantitative and multifactorial perspective and by (ii) also documenting the impact of corpus-based word frequency. We begin with the basic distinctions of speech rhythms, dealing with the differences between syllable-timed languages and stress-timed languages and several methods that have been used to attempt to distinguish between the two. We then describe how these me

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Sung-A Kim. "Rethinking the Dichotomy between Syllable-timed vs. Stress-timed Languages with Particular Reference to Korean L1 Speakers' English." Journal of Studies in Language 24, no. 3 (2008): 473–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.18627/jslg.24.3.200811.473.

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Barbosa, Plínio Almeida. "É possível integrar o discreto e o contínuo em um modelo de produção do ritmo da fala?" Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos 40 (August 10, 2011): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/cel.v40i0.8637117.

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A model of speech rhythm production is proposed that is able to explain the differences found between the durational patterns of stress- and syllable-timed languages from strict considerations of timing. This is possible from a two-parameter characterization of Brazilian Portuguese V-to-V duration patterns within stress groups. The parameters are speech rate (measured in terms of V-to-V units per unit of time) and the coupling strength between two oscillators (syllabic and stress group oscillators), which act as a cognitive pacemaker whose pace is the vowel onset succession entrained by the be

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Wang, Chengxia, Yi Xu, and Jinsong Zhang. "Functional timing or rhythmical timing, or both? A corpus study of English and Mandarin duration." Frontiers in Psychology 13 (January 20, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.869049.

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It has been long held that languages of the world are divided into rhythm classes so that they are either stress-timed, syllable-timed or mora-timed. It is also known for a long time that duration serves various informational functions in speech. But it is unclear whether these two kinds of uses of duration are complementary to each other, or they are actually one and the same. There has been much empirical research that raises questions about the rhythm class hypothesis due to lack of evidence of the suggested isochrony in any language. Yet the alleged cross-language rhythm classification is

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Larson, Joseph Edward, Mauricio A. Figueroa, and Hernán Emilio Pérez. "Impact of elocution task on the measurements of rhythmic patterns in Chilean Spanish." Spanish in Context, November 28, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.00082.lar.

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Abstract In this paper, we put to the test the validity of the theory of isochrony using data from Chilean Spanish. Spanish has been historically classified as syllable-timed, meaning its basic unit of prosody is the syllable. However, recent studies have shown that different methods of elicitation can have a significant effect on rhythm metrics (i.e., Arvaniti 2012). The present study measured a series of rhythm metrics from samples of 30 native Chilean Spanish speakers producing spontaneous speech and reading aloud. Using MANOVA analyses, the study determined that method of elicitation had a

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Liu, Sha, and Kaye Takeda. "Mora-timed, stress-timed, and syllable-timed rhythm classes: Clues in English speech production by bilingual speakers." Acta Linguistica Academica, September 10, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2062.2021.00469.

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Abstract A growing body of literature suggests that the world's languages can be classified into three rhythm classes: mora-timed languages, stress-timed languages, and syllable-timed languages. However, scholars cannot agree on which rhythmic measures discriminate rhythm classes most satisfactorily and whether the speech rate factor should be considered. In this study, we analyze speech production by bilingual speakers, and compare their production with that of monolingual speakers and ESL speakers. Our rhythmic metric measure results show that when speech rate is taken into consideration, a

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Schiering, René, Balthasar Bickel, and Kristine A. Hildebrandt. "Stress-timed = word-based? Testing a hypothesis in prosodic typology." STUF - Language Typology and Universals 65, no. 2 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/stuf.2012.0010.

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AbstractIn recent research on cross-linguistic differences in linguistic rhythm, it has been hypothesized that the traditional dichotomy ‘stress-timed’ versus ‘syllable-timed’ might be recast with respect to which level of the Prosodic Hierarchy constitutes the most prominent domain for the organization of prosodic structure. In this paper, we test the prediction that ‘stress-timed’ languages are characterized by a dominance of the prosodic word against a typological sample of 58 languages. Although there is a slight cross-linguistic tendency in favor of the prediction, there is no statistical

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Sebina, Boikanyego, Jane Setter, and Michael Daller. "The Setswana speech rhythm of 6–7 year-old Setswana–English bilingual children." International Journal of Bilingualism, October 13, 2020, 136700692096079. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006920960799.

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Aims and objectives: This study investigates the acquisition of Setswana speech rhythm, considered to be typically syllable-timed, by early sequential Setswana–English bilingual children aged 6–7 years old growing up in Botswana, a country with a diglossic setting, where English is the dominant high-status language in educational and public contexts. For this group of children, taught full-time in English from the age of 3 years, the L2 becomes their dominant language through exposure to English-medium education. The aim was to ascertain if the prosodic patterns of Setswana spoken by the bilin

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Pérez-Navarro, Jose, Marie Lallier, Catherine Clark, Sheila Flanagan, and Usha Goswami. "Local Temporal Regularities in Child-Directed Speech in Spanish." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, October 4, 2022, 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00111.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize the local (utterance-level) temporal regularities of child-directed speech (CDS) that might facilitate phonological development in Spanish, classically termed a syllable-timed language. Method: Eighteen female adults addressed their 4-year-old children versus other adults spontaneously and also read aloud (CDS vs. adult-directed speech [ADS]). We compared CDS and ADS speech productions using a spectrotemporal model (Leong & Goswami, 2015), obtaining three temporal metrics: (a) distribution of modulation energy, (b) temporal regularity o

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Brown, Lisa, Linda Wilson, Ann Packman, et al. "Conversational speech of school-age children after syllable-timed speech treatment for stuttering." International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, July 8, 2021, 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2021.1946152.

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