Rhythmic Commonalities between Hand Gestures and Speech
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Studies of coordination in rhythmic limb movement have established that certain phase relationships among cycling limbs are preferred, i.e. patterns such as synchrony and anti-synchrony are produced more often and more reliably than arbitrary relations. A speech experiment in which subjects attempt to place a phrase-medial stress at a range of phases within an overall phrase repetition cycle is presented, and analogous results are found. Certain phase relations occur more frequently and exhibit greater stability than others. To a rst approximation, these phases are predicted by a simple harmonic model. The observed commonalities between limb movements and spoken rhythm support Lashley's conjecture that a common control strategy underlies the coordination of all rhythmic activity.
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