Speech rhythm: a metaphor?
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Speech rhythm: a metaphor?
Is speech rhythmic? In the absence of evidence for a traditional view that languages strive to coordinate either syllables or stress-feet with regular time intervals, we consider the alternative that languages exhibit contrastive rhythm subsisting merely in the alternation of stronger and weaker elements. This is initially plausible, particularly for languages with a steep 'prominence gradient'...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0396