Rhythm, Timing and the Timing of Rhythm
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Amalia Arvaniti
Abstract
This article reviews the evidence for rhythmic categorization that has emerged on the basis of rhythm metrics, and argues that the metrics are unreliable predictors of rhythm which provide no more than a crude measure of timing. It is further argued that timing is distinct from rhythm and that equating them has led to circularity and a psychologically questionable conceptualization of rhythm in speech. It is thus proposed that research on rhythm be based on the same principles for all languages, something that does not apply to the widely accepted division of languages into stress- and syllable-timed. The hypothesis is advanced that these universal principles are grouping and prominence and evidence to support it is provided.
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© 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel
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- Special Section
- Title Page / Table of Contents
- Editorial
- Whither Speech Rhythm Research?
- Original Paper
- Rhythm as an Affordance for the Entrainment of Movement
- Rhythm in Speech and Language
- Rhythm, Timing and the Timing of Rhythm
- The Pairwise Variability Index and Coexisting Rhythms in Language
- Do Rhythm Measures Reflect Perceived Rhythm?
- F₀-Based Rhythm Effects on the Perception of Local Syllable Prominence
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- Further Section
- Index autorum
Articles in the same Issue
- Special Section
- Title Page / Table of Contents
- Editorial
- Whither Speech Rhythm Research?
- Original Paper
- Rhythm as an Affordance for the Entrainment of Movement
- Rhythm in Speech and Language
- Rhythm, Timing and the Timing of Rhythm
- The Pairwise Variability Index and Coexisting Rhythms in Language
- Do Rhythm Measures Reflect Perceived Rhythm?
- F₀-Based Rhythm Effects on the Perception of Local Syllable Prominence
- On the Possible Role of Brain Rhythms in Speech Perception: Intelligibility of Time-Compressed Speech with Periodic and Aperiodic Insertions of Silence
- Further Section
- Index autorum
