A Visual Speech Intelligibility Benefit Based on Speech Rhythm [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 This study examined whether visual speech provides speech-rhythm information that perceivers can use in speech perception. This was tested by using speech that naturally varied in the familiarity of its rhythm.
Saya Kawase, Chris Davis, Jeesun Kim
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Speech rhythm: a metaphor? [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2014 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
Nolan F, Jeon HS.
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Speech Rhythm Variation in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease: A Study on Different Speaking Tasks [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) usually reveal speech disorders and, among other symptoms, the alteration of speech rhythm. The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to test the validity of two acoustic parameters—%V, vowel percentage and VtoV ...
Marta Maffia +6 more
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Speech-like rhythm in a voiced and voiceless orangutan call. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The evolutionary origins of speech remain obscure. Recently, it was proposed that speech derived from monkey facial signals which exhibit a speech-like rhythm of ∼5 open-close lip cycles per second.
Adriano R Lameira +5 more
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Response to Fred Cummins: Looking for Rhythm in Speech [PDF]
Empirical Musicology Review, 2012 This commentary briefly reviews three aspects of rhythm in speech. The first concerns the issues of what to measure and how measurements should relate to rhythm's communicative functions.
David House
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Looking for Rhythm in Speech [PDF]
Empirical Musicology Review, 2012 A brief review is provided of the study of rhythm in speech. Much of that activity has focused on looking for empirical measures that would support the categorization of languages into discrete rhythm ‘types’.
Fred Cummins
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Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsImpaired musical rhythm abilities and developmental speech-language related disorders are biologically and clinically intertwined. Prior work examining their relationship has primarily used small samples; here, we studied associations at population-scale
Srishti Nayak +14 more
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Impaired extraction of speech rhythm from temporal modulation patterns in speech in developmental dyslexia [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Dyslexia is associated with impaired neural representation of the sound structure of words (phonology). The ‘phonological deficit’ in dyslexia may arise in part from impaired speech rhythm perception, thought to depend on neural oscillatory phase-locking
Victoria eLeong, Usha eGoswami
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Perception of speech rhythm in second language: The case of rhythmically similar L1 and L2 [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 We investigated the perception of developmental changes in timing patterns that happen in the course of second language (L2) acquisition, provided that the native and the target languages of the learner are rhythmically similar (German and English).
Mikhail eOrdin, Leona ePolyanskaya
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Reducing language to rhythm: Amazonian Bora drummed language exploits speech rhythm for long-distance communication [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Many drum communication systems around the world transmit information by emulating tonal and rhythmic patterns of spoken languages in sequences of drumbeats.
Frank Seifart +3 more
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