Rhythms of speech and language : physiology, cognition, culture / edited by Lars Meyer, Antje Strauss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyer, Lars (Linguist), editor.

Strauss, Antje, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Rhythm.

Language and languages.

Cognition.

Language and culture.

cognition.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Comprising 50 chapters spanning physiology, cognition, and culture, this book captures the pivotal role of rhythms in the production and comprehension of speech and language, alongside their evolution as cultural systems. Ideal for academics, researchers, and professionals seeking interdisciplinary insights into the essence of human communication"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Body-grounded speech rhythm : Ubiquitous interactions between speech, breathing, and limb movements / Hélène Serré and Amélie Rochet-Capellan

Jaw-opening patterns and their correspondence with syllable stress patterns / Donna Erickson, Malin Svensson Lundmark, and Ting Huang

Region-specific endogenous brain rhythms and their role for speech and language / Johanna M. Rimmele and Anne Keitel

The sensorimotor account of multimodal prosody / Jacob P. Momsen and Seana Coulson

Evaluating neural tracking of rhythmic information in speech : Some caveats and challenges / Véronique Boulenger

Speech rhythm in the perception–action cycle / Laura Verga, Sonja A. Kotz, and Michael Schwartze

A road to a better understanding of rhythms in speech using a comparative approach / Lara S. Burchardt and Susanne Fuchs

A polychromatic portrait of speech rhythm / Steven Greenberg

Rhythms of phones, syllables, and words in connected speech / Yuran Zhang, Jiajie Zou, and Nai Ding

Linguistic factors affecting amplitude modulation spectra / Bettina Braun

The P-center effect and the domain of beat perception in speech / Tamara Rathcke

Adaptive pacing in word segmentation and the vowel-onset paced syllable inference model / Ben Pittman-Polletta and Laura Dilley

Beyond acoustics : Capacity limitations of linguistic levels / Jérémy Giroud and Benjamin Morillon

Rhythm is a timescale / Aviad Albert and Martine Grice

Intonation units : Prosodic regularity in spontaneous speech as a window onto cognitive dynamics / Maya Inbar, Eitan Grossman, and Ayelet N. Landau

Phrasal rhythmicity and the sources of temporal intermittency in speech / Sam Tilsen

Prosody versus syntax, or prosody and syntax? Evaluating accounts of delta-band tracking / Cas W. Coopmans and Andrea E. Martin

Cognitive and neural constraints on timing and rhythm in language / Lena Henke, Eleonora Beier, Mikael Roll, and Lars Meyer

Shaping rhythm to keep balance : The structural implications of temporal modulation / Nino Grillo, Andrea Santi, and Giuseppina Turco

The hierarchical temporal structure of prosody / Christopher T. Kello

Preserving prosody in temporal distortions of speech / Alistair Beith, Dale Barr, and Rachel Smith

Rhythmic alternation and balance : A new metric / Isabelle Franz

Time, cohesion, style : Rhythm formants in oral narrative / Dafydd Gibbon

Time to pop the cork? The cork exercise and its effects on rhythm and melody in a public speaker’s presentation task / Oliver Niebuhr, Nafiseh Taghva, and Malin Svensson Lundmark

Rhythmic stimulation of linguistic performance : A common structure? / Dávid György, Douglas Saddy, Sonja A. Kotz, and Julie Franck

Characterizing rhythmic regularity in speech and song / Meyha Chhatwal, Selina Sabetti-Franklin, and Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden

Beats in time across music and language / Uli Reich and Martin Rohrmeier

Shared mechanisms for the processing of rhythm in music and speech / Anna Fiveash and Barbara Tillmann

Interaction phonology : Rhythmic coordination as scaffold for communicative alignment / Petra Wagner

Duration-based and acoustic speech rhythm metrics / Robert Fuchs

The role of prosodic durational variation in the temporal coordination of utterances / Saleh Ghadanfari and Laurence White

Individual and language differences in rhythm grouping preferences : The iambic–trochaic law revisited / Amalia Arvaniti and Hae-Sung Jeon

Cross-linguistic consistency of speech rhythms and pending questions : Evidence from bilingual and second-language speakers / Sha Liu

Revisiting rhythm in Romance languages / Camila Barros, Uli Reich, and Andreas Dufter

Rhythm and language acquisition : A temporal sampling perspective / Usha Goswami

Neural and behavioural rhythmic tracking during language acquisition : Findings, methods, and outstanding issues / Kanad N. Mandke and Sinead Rocha

Maturational constraints on tracking of temporal attention in infant language acquisition / Tineke M. Snijders and Katharina H. Menn

Rhythmic structure in cross-modal infant-directed communication / Marina Kalashnikova, Laura Fernández-Merino, and Sofia Russo

Prosody as an entry point into language structure in early language acquisition / Guro Stensby Sjuls, Mila Dimitrova Vulchanova, and Judit Gervain

Acquisition of similar versus different speech rhythmic class / Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, and Rahul Sengupta

Speech rhythms and pupil size / Alan Langus, Mireia Marimon, and Barbara Höhle

Speech rhythm in hearing loss and cochlear implant listening / Alexis Deighton MacIntyre

Melodic intonation therapy : The ingredients that make it work / Lauryn Zipse

Phonetic adaptation and rhythmic entrainment in interactive language use : Neural mechanisms and evidence from individuals with neurological disorders / Wolfram Ziegler and Ingrid Aichert

Rhythmic processes in stuttering and Parkinson’s disease / Simone Dalla Bella and Simone Falk

Speech rhythm in stuttering : Perception and production / Michela Russo and Fabrice Hirsch

Conversational rhythmic-prosodic entrainment in autism / Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier, Hasan Al-Shammari, and Steven Sandoval/

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 30, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Rhythms of speech and language

ISBN:

9781009295888

1009295888

9781009295864

1009295861

OCLC:

1528510170

Publisher Number:

CIPO000335736

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access