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English speech rhythm : form and function in everyday verbal interaction / Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth.
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond. New ser. ; 25.
- Pragmatics & beyond. New ser., 0922-842X ; 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhythm.
- English language.
- English language--Spoken English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 346 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia [Pa.] : J. Benjamins, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- ENGLISH SPEECH RHYTHM; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; TABLE OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; I. IS THERE RHYTHM IN SPEECH?; II. DISCOVERING RHYTHM IN ENGLISH SPEECH; III. THE HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF SPEECH RHYTHM; IV. ANALYZING SPEECH RHYTHM AT TURN TRANSITIONS; V. ACCOUNTING FOR SPEECH RHYTHM AT TURN TRANSITIONS; VI. INTERPRETING SPEECH RHYTHM AT SEQUENCE-EXTERNAL JUNCTURES; VII. INTERPRETING SPEECH RHYTHM AT SEQUENCE-INTERNAL JUNCTURES; VIII. INTERPRETING SPEECH RHYTHM IN SPECIFIC ACTIVITY SEQUENCES; CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX I. INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF PERCEPTUALLY ISOCHRONOUS SEQUENCES IN THE OPEN LINE FRAGMENT; APPENDIX II. INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF PERCEPTUALLY NON-ISOCHRONOUS SEQUENCES IN THE OPEN LINE FRAGMENT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS; The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-09267-0
- 9786613092670
- 90-272-8583-7
- OCLC:
- 715294262
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