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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"speech rhythm"”.
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Speech Rhythm in American English: A Corpus Study
This dissertation investigates speech rhythm in American English based on the speech from the Boston University Radio News corpus, comparing the patterns of rhythmic shortening in two different types of prosodic domains, the ISI (inter-stress interval) and the IAI (inter-accent interval). The main …
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Speech rhythm: the language-specific integration of pitch and duration
Experimental phonetic research on speech rhythm seems to have reached an impasse. Recently, this research field has tended to investigate produced (rather than perceived) rhythm, focussing on timing, i.e. duration as an acoustic cue, and has not considered that rhythm perception might be influenced …
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The role of first and second language speech rhythm in syntactic ambiguity processing and musical rhythmic aptitude
Rhythm is a temporal and systematic organization of acoustic events in terms of prominence, timing and grouping, helping to structure our most basic experiences, such as body movement, music and speech. In speech, rhythm groups auditory events, e.g., sounds and pauses, together into words, making …
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Teaching connected speech rules to Japanese speakers of English so as to avoid a staccato speech rhythm
… Japanese speakers of English how to connect speech so as to avoid a robotic speech rhythm. A control and an experimental group were each given three one-hour classes in English. The control group read poetry aloud without any explicit instructions. The experimental group were instructed in …
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Music as an educative enrichment medium for the remediation of children with reading problems
… games. It is necessary for a child to experience rhythm in every possible way to enable him to read with a flowing rhythm and a pleasant intonation. A child must be able to feel and experience the rhythm of the spoken word by repeating rhymes, phrases, chanting children's names, for example. This …
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Music, Language, and Rhythmic Timing
… and cognitive oscillations synchronize with rhythmic events in both speech (Luo & Poeppel, 2007) and music (Snyder & Large, 2005). This synchronization decreases perceptual thresholds to temporally predictable events (Lawrance et al., 2014), improves task performance (Ellis & Jones, 2010), …
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Style in Performance: The Prosody of Poetic Recitation.
… or refrain from resolving any tension between speech rhythm and metre, or to add further tension. Section III examines pitch patterns, regarding them as a system of recurring patterns which cross-cut those of metre and verse form. A new system for classifying pitch patterns is put forward, …
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Time-domain concatenative text-to-speech synthesis.
… framework for time-domain concatenative speech synthesis (TDCSS) is presented and evaluated. In this framework, speech segments are extracted from CV, VC, CVC and CC waveforms, and abutted. Speech rhythm is controlled via a single duration parameter, which specifies the initial portion of …