Syllable omission errors and isochrony

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. General introduction
3. Prospectus for a science of pausology 3
4. First section: General aspects
5. The place of pragmatics in the syntactic and semantic organization of language 13
6. Slips of the tongue as neuromuscular evidence for a model of speech production 21
7. Grammatical incoherence 27
8. The competing plans hypothesis: An heuristic viewpoint on the causes of errors in speech 39
9. Models of verbal planning in the theory of catastrophes 51
10. Pausological research at Saint Louis University 61
11. Second section: Syntactic and structural aspects
12. Pauses, prosody, and the demands of production in language 69
13. Pause and syntactic structure 85
14. Linguistic structures and performance structures: Studies in pause distribution 91
15. Phonological status of the pause 107
16. Pauses as indicators of cognitive functioning in aphasia 113
17. Speech control and paraphasia in fluent and nonfluent aphasics 121
18. Third section: Conversational aspects
19. Encoding units in spontaneous speech: Some implications for the dynamics of conversation 131
20. Hesitancy as a conversational resource: Some methodological implications 145
21. The relationship between gaze and speech examined afresh with a Mackworth eye-mark camera 153
22. Verbal planning in route directions 159
23. Some reasons for hesitating 169
24. Fourth section: Prosodic aspects
25. Syllable omission errors and isochrony 183
26. Suprasegmental structure and sentence perception 191
27. Juncture pause and intonation fall and the perceptual segmentation of speech 199
28. Some neglected aspects of intonation 207
29. The role of pauses and suprasegmentals in a grammar 211
30. A functional analysis of some pause and pitch step-up combinations 221
31. Towards a subcategorization of speech pauses 227
32. Perception of pauses and automatic speech recognition 239
33. A digital method of pause extraction 247
34. Fifth section: Crosslinguistic aspects
35. The syntactical distribution of pauses in English spoken as a second language by French students 255
36. Temporal variables in first and second language speech production 263
37. Pauses and intonation as indicators of verbal planning in second-language speech productions: Two examples from a case study 271
38. Results of a contrastive study of hesitation phenomena in French and German 287
39. Towards a theory of speech processing: Some methodological considerations 291
40. Probe latencies, foreign languages and foreign language learners 299
41. Comparative studies of temporal variables in spoken and sign languages: A short review 307
42. Verbal strategies: A neglected dimension in language acquisition studies 313
43. Final discussion
44. On the current understanding of temporal variables in speech 325
45. References 341
46. Index of names 367