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This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech rhythm at turn transitions is investigated. It is argued that speech rhythm serves as a metric for the timing of turn transitions in casual English conversation. The articular rhythmic configuration of a transition can be said to contextualize the next turn as, generally speaking, affiliative or disaffiliative with the prior turn. The empirical investigation suggests that speech rhythm patterns at turn transitions in everyday English conversation are not random occurrences or the result of a social-psychological adaptation process but are contextualization cues which figure systematically in the creation and interpretation of linguistic meaning in communication.
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech rhythm at turn transitions is investigated. It is argued that speech rhythm serves as a metric for the timing of turn transitions in casual English conversation. The articular rhythmic configuration of a transition can be said to contextualize the next turn as, generally speaking, affiliative or disaffiliative with the prior turn. The empirical investigation suggests that speech rhythm patterns at turn transitions in everyday English conversation are not random occurrences or the result of a social-psychological adaptation process but are contextualization cues which figure systematically in the creation and interpretation of linguistic meaning in communication.
Presents findings on rhythms in English speech, covering such topics as the isochrony debate, identifying isochrony, models of linguistic rhythm, speech rhythm at turn transitions, speech rhythm at sequence-external junctures and speech rhythm at sequence-internal junctures.
Speech rhythm has been recognized for its critical role in human speech understanding, in language acquisition, and in the development of speech technology, but researchers do not yet have a complete account about what prosodic unit serves as a basic rhythmic unit in a language and how rhythmic manifestation is related to the prosodic phrasing of a language.
Study exercises for the learning and practice of pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation of American English.
The second in a series, this course is intended primarily for the foreign-born learner who can read and understand English but who is unable to make himself understood because of incorrect stress and faulty rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is put on pronumciation and rhythm.
An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.