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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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Is Basque a syllable-timed language?
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1988 -
Bernhard Hurch
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Is French really syllable-timed?
Journal of Phonetics, 1982 Abstract: The widespread supposition that French is “syllable-timed” is examined closely and found, in the light of instrumental and perceptual evidence, to deny just those facts which make it possible to speak and understand the language. An attempt is made to discover those features of linguists’ conceptual and perceptual systems which conspire to ...
B. Wenk, F. Wioland
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Is Spanish really syllable-timed?
Journal of Phonetics, 1980 Abstract The previously published experimental work carried out on rhythm in spoken Spanish is examined in an attempt to establish whether or not Spanish belongs to the group of languages called syllable-timed. At first the evidence appears to be contradictory, but close examination of the figures from the experiments leads me to the conclusion that ...
G. Pointon
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"Syllable-timing in Brazilian Portuguese": uma crítica a Roy Major Tempo-silábico em português do Brasil: a critic to Roy Major [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2000 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.
Plínio Almeida BARBOSA
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Stress-timing and syllable-timing reanalyzed
Journal of Phonetics, 1983 Abstract: Comparisons of data from continuous texts in English, Thai, Spanish, Italian and Greek, show that interstress intervals in English, a stress-timed language, are no more isochronous than interstress intervals in Spanish, a syllable-timed language, or any of the other languages investigated.
R. M. Dauer
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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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Rate vs. rhythm characteristics of cluttering with data from a “syllable-timed” language [PDF]
Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2021 Cluttering is a type of fluency disorder characterized by a speech rate which is perceived to be fast and/or irregular as well as by an abnormal speech rhythm. As far as we know, no research has been conducted as yet using objective measurements and acoustic phonetic description on the rhythm of cluttered speech.
Judit Bóna, Anna Kohári
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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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