Generating Chinese Ci with Designated Metrical Structure

9 Calculating Metrical Structure

Formal Properties of Metrical Structure

This paper offers a provisional mathematical typology of metrical representations. First, a family of algebras corresponding to different versions of grid and bracketed grid theory is introduced. It is subsequently shown in what way bracketed grid theory differs from metrical theories using trees. Finally, we show that there are no significant differences between the formalism of bracketed grid...

Metrical Structure and Jaw Opening

Acoustic and articulatory measurements were made of utterances containing seven syllables using the vowel /aI/ with varying degrees of prominence, including contrastive emphasis/focus. A trained phonetician judged the amount of prominence for each of the seven syllables. The findings show a significant correlation between amount of jaw opening for each of the target syllables and perceived prom...

Differences in Metrical Structure Confound Tempo Judgments

Musical tempo is usually regarded as simply the rate of the tactus or beat, yet most rhythms involve multiple, concurrent periodicities. Two experiments were conducted to investigate relations between the absolute rate of the tactus versus a more global sense of speed via a tempo discrimination task involving typical rhythmic patterns. Stimulus rhythms in 4/4 meter were presented at two tempos ...

The Asymmetric Interaction of Metrical Structure and Tone in Standard Chinese

Background: Tone has been claimed to play an active role in stress assignment in Standard Chinese: 1) a syllable with tone constitutes the head of a foot, hence is stressed, and a syllable without tone is unstressed (Yip 1980); 2) the intrinsic prominence of tone determines the stressability of a syllable, syllables with the Falling and the High-level tones are stressed, whereas syllables with ...