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Rhythm and Syllable Timing in Phrase Level Stress Patterning

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1975
The rhythm of syllables in repetitions of a phrase was measured with a finger-tapping task. These rhythm measurements were shown to vary with phrase level stress patterning. However, this relationship was not invariant. Acoustic measurements of the time between syllables showed stress pattern relationships similar to those observed in the rhythm ...
J W, Folkins, C J, Miller, F D, Minifie
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Rhythmic speech and stuttering reduction in a syllable-timed language

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2018
Speaking rhythmically, also known as syllable-timed speech (STS), has been known for centuries to be a fluency-inducing condition for people who stutter. Cantonese is a tonal syllable-timed language and it has been shown that, of all languages, Cantonese is the most rhythmic (Mok, 2009).
Thomas, Law, Ann, Packman, Mark, Onslow, Carol K-S, To, Michael C-F, Tong, Kathy Y-S, Lee   +5 more
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Q uantitative Characterizations of Speech Rhythm: Syllable-Timing in Singapore English

Language and Speech, 2000
British English and Singapore English are said to differ in rhythmic patterning. British English is commonly described as stress-timed, but Singapore English is claimed to be syllable-timed. In the present paper, we explore the acoustic nature of the suggested cross-varietal difference. In directly comparable samples from British English and Singapore
L E, Ling, E, Grabe, F, Nolan
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Spanish as a “syllable-timed” language

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1986
Spanish has been characterized as “syllable-timed” as opposed to English and German, which have been called “stress-timed” languages. This report describes a search for phonetic correlates of the term “syllable-timed.” Measurements were made of the relative durations of the stressed and unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words spoken by four speakers of
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Analog I/O nets for syllable timing

Speech Communication, 1990
Abstract Back-propagation has been used to train a small network for the prediction of syllable-level duration in a text-to-speech system. Both input and output are in the form of analog values, and the net performs a multiple regression function.
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Listener preferences for stuttered and syllable-timed speech production

Journal of Fluency Disorders, 1979
Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine how “naive” listeners react to syllable-timed speech production. Three stutterers were videotape recorded while speaking in their usual manner and pacing their speech at 100 words per minute (wpm) and 70 wpm. Twenty-three listeners rated the speech samples as to which they preferred to hear.
A.R. Mallard, L.A. Meyer
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Effects of metrical structure on syllable timing II.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010
Fourakis and Monahan [J. Linguist. (1988)] examined the effects of two different types of metrical foot (iamb and anapest) on syllable timing in 3 ft utterances. These utterances were comprised of three iambs, three anapests, and every possible combination of the two types.
Megan Tinius, Marios Fourakis
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Sentence size and syllable timing in aphasia

Brain and Language, 2007
Abstract Syllable durations were evaluated in sentences of two lengths produced by patients with fluent and nonfluent aphasia. The fluent group exhibited deviant timing in final syllables in both stimulus sizes and an inability to distinguish between medial and final syllables in long stimuli.
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Unpacking the research process: Investigating syllable‐timing in new Zealand English

Language Awareness, 1997
Doing research is one important means of increasing understanding of language issues and developing metalinguistic awareness, from which students of language and linguistics, and language learners can benefit. Published papers generally present the process of investigating language as a neat, logical progression from an initial research question to a ...
Janet Holmes, Helen Ainsworth
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Can stress-timing and syllable-timing be perceived?

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010
The listeners’ ability to classify languages as stress- or syllable-timed was indirectly tested in two experiments. In the first, American, Greek, and Korean listeners rated low-pass filtered utterances of English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, and Spanish for similarity to a series of non-speech trochees, using a 7-point scale.
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