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Relationship between the Sequencing and Timing of Vocal Motor Elements in Birdsong. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Accurate coordination of the sequencing and timing of motor gestures is important for the performance of complex and evolutionarily relevant behaviors. However, the degree to which motor sequencing and timing are related remains largely unknown. Birdsong
Andrew M M Matheson, Jon T Sakata
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Acoustic Correlations of Speech Rhythms in Persian Based on Variability of Between-speakers Characteristics [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2020 The durational variability of phonetic intervals is considered as one of the properties of speech rhythm. These intervals include segmental, vowel, consonantal, vocalic, intervocalic, voiced, unvoiced, syllable, and syllable peak intervals.
Nafiseh Taghva +2 more
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Kai kurie akustiniai lietuvių kalbos ritmiškumo parametrai
Baltistica, 2013 Šio tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti skaitomos lietuvių kalbos ritmiškumo rodiklius, susijusius su garsinių segmentų trukme. Analizuojama penkių profesionalių diktorių (trijų vyrų ir dviejų moterų) perskaitytos ištraukos iš grožinių kūrinių (kiekvienas jų ...
Asta Kazlauskienė
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Categoricity, Variation, and Gradience in Sambla Balafon Segmental Encoding
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper analyzes the musical surrogate encoding of Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso) syllable structure on the balafon, a resonator xylophone used by the Sambla ethnicity.
Laura McPherson
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Linking gestural representations to syllable count judgments: A cross-language test
Laboratory Phonology, 2022 A special class of English words with tense vowel/diphthong nuclei and liquid codas receive variable syllable count judgments (one or over-one syllables).
Anisia Popescu, Ioana Chitoran
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Language Experience and Phonetic Training as Factors Influencing Timing Organisation in Polish Learners of English [PDF]
, 2014 The paper investigates the dynamics of speech rhythm in Polish learners of English and, specifically, how rhythm measurements revealing durational characteristics of vocalic and consonantal intervals through the measures (%V, ΔV, ΔC, VarcoV, VarcoC and ...
Gralińska-Brawata, Anna
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Non-native patterns of English syllable timing
Journal of Phonetics, 1985 This study compared the timing of syllables in the speech of non-native speakers of English with American English timing patterns. The subjects, native speakers of Thai, Malaysian and Japanese, read English words in isolation and with one and two syllable suffixes added.
Z.S. Bond, Joann Fokes
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SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 The present study investigates the rhythmic properties of the non-native speech produced by multilingual learners with Mandarin Chinese as a heritage language who acquire French as foreign languages in the German school context.
Gabriel Christoph +2 more
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Speech rhythm: a metaphor? [PDF]
, 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
Abercrombie D +33 more
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Rhythm Related Effects in Erzya; 268-282 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 This article focuses on some of the findings from a cross-dialect study of stress and quantity in Erzya that provide support for the idea of rhythmic variability in the language.
Niina Aasmäe
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