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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
1993.
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Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 25. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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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 ; |