Functional timing or rhythmical timing, or both? A corpus study of English and Mandarin duration [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 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.
Chengxia Wang, Yi Xu, Jinsong Zhang
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Rapid gains in segmenting fluent speech when words match the rhythmic unit: evidence from infants acquiring syllable-timed languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 The ability to extract word-forms from sentential contexts represents an initial step in infants’ process towards lexical acquisition. By age 6 months the ability is just emerging and evidence of it is restricted to certain testing conditions.
Laura eBosch +3 more
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Temporal Parameters of Spontaneous Speech in Forensic Speaker Identification in Case of Language Mismatch: Serbian as L1 and English as L2 [PDF]
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2017 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,
Kristina TOMIĆ
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The role of syllabic rhythm in speech perception across languages [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe insertion of silences at regular intervals restores the intelligibility of English utterances that have been accelerated beyond comprehension, as long as the duration of the resulting speech-silence chunks falls within the theta rhythm of natural ...
Irene de la Cruz-Pavía +5 more
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Is It About Speech or About Prediction? Testing Between Two Accounts of the Rhythm–Reading Link [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: The mechanisms underlying the positive association between reading and rhythmic skills remain unclear. Our goal was to systematically test between two major explanations: the Temporal Sampling Framework (TSF), which highlights the ...
Susana Silva +6 more
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Is the Prosodic Structure of Texts Reflected in Silent Reading? An Eye-Tracking Corpus Analysis [PDF]
Journal of Eye Movement ResearchThe aim of this study was to test the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis using a reading corpus, i.e., a text without experimental manipulation labelled with eye-tracking parameters. For this purpose, a bilingual Croatian–English reading corpus was analysed. In
Marijan Palmović, Kristina Cergol
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The rhythmic type of Persian: A phonological perspective [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 In rhythmic typology, languages are categorized into stress-timed and syllable-timed types. Earlier studies have highlighted the isochrony of interstress intervals and syllables in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages, respectively.
Anis Masoumi, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
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An acoustic analysis of the rhythm of Yemeni Arabic
Journal of Modern Languages, 2019 Previous studies have found that different Arabic dialects display different degrees of stress-timing features forming a continuum that ranges from more stress-timed to less stress-timed Arabic dialects.
Nada Mohammed Salem, Stefanie Pillai
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Segmentation of Rhythmic Units in Word Speech by Japanese Infants and Toddlers
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 When infants and toddlers are confronted with sequences of sounds, they are required to segment the sounds into meaningful units to achieve sufficient understanding. Rhythm has been regarded as a crucial cue for segmentation of speech sounds.
Yeonju Cheong +2 more
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Il mito dell’isocronia moraica in giapponese: un’analisi quantitativa basata su corpora orali
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020 Pike (1945) classified the world languages into two types of rhythmic/prosodic patterns: stress-timed and syllable-timed. According to this classification, stress-timed languages, like English and German, tend to have isochronous interstress intervals ...
Giuseppe Pappalardo
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