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English speech rhythm : form and function in everyday verbal interaction /

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-sc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1993.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 25.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 r.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 346 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-333) and index.
ISBN:9789027285836
9027285837
1283092670
9781283092678
9786613092670
6613092673
ISSN:0922-842X ;