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Mechanized Metrics: From Verse Science to Laboratory Prosody, 1880-1918 [PDF]
Post-print version of the article deposited in accordance with SHERPA RoMEO guidelines. Copyright © 2009, Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology Vol.17(3), pp285-308.
Hall, Jason D
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Speech rhythm: a metaphor? [PDF]
Is speech rhythmic? In the absence of evidence for a traditional view that languages strive to coordinate either syllables or stress-feet with regular time intervals, we consider the alternative that languages exhibit contrastive rhythm subsisting merely
Abercrombie D +33 more
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Fundamental frequency height as a resource for the management of overlap in talk-in-interaction. [PDF]
Overlapping talk is common in talk-in-interaction. Much of the previous research on this topic agrees that speaker overlaps can be either turn competitive or noncompetitive. An investigation of the differences in prosodic design between these two classes
Brown, G. J., Kurtic, E., Wells, B.
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Norwegian retroflexion : licensing by cue or prosody? [PDF]
A common topic in recent literature on phonology is the question of whether phonological processes and segments are licensed by prosodic position or by perceptual cues. The former is the traditional view, as represented by e.g.
Hamann, Silke
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Stressed vowel duration and phonemic length contrast [PDF]
As far as phonemic length contrast is concerned, we observe a high degree of durational overlap between phonemically long and short vowels in monosyllabic CVC words (which is enforced by a greater pitch excursion), whereas in polysyllables the ...
Ciszewski, Tomasz
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The Museum on the Edge of Forever [PDF]
This article argues that understanding any space or site relies on a knowledge of its fourth dimension - the timescape. It will explore this by situating the investigation in the museum - a place of heightened contrivance which could easily be shallowly ...
Walklate, Jenny
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What's the point? The role of punctuation in realising information structure in written English [PDF]
The main claim of this paper is that punctuation marks, in conjunction with spaces between words, function to provide visual rather than auditory cues for information structure in written English.
Moore, Nick
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Non-native contrasts in Tongan loans [PDF]
We present three case studies of marginal contrasts in Tongan loans from English, working with data from three speakers. Although Tongan lacks contrasts in stress or in CC vs.
Alderete +48 more
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LINKING METAPHORS AND ARGUMENTS TO SEMANTIC PROSODIES: A CASE STUDY OF VICTORY VERBS IN INDONESIAN ONLINE FOOTBALL NEWS [PDF]
The use of hyperbolic victory verbs such as menghancurkan ‘to destroy’, menekuk ‘to fold’, menggunduli ‘to shave bald’ characterizes football news report in Indonesia.
PRIHANTORO, PRIHANTORO
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Prosody and melody in vowel disorder [PDF]
The paper explores the syllabic and segmental dimensions of phonological vowel disorder. The independence of the two dimensions is illustrated by the case study of an English-speaking child presenting with an impairment which can be shown to have a ...
Bates, S, Harris, J, Watson, J
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