English speech rhythm: form and function in everyday verbal interaction
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1. Verfasser: Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth 1943- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam J. Benjamins 1993
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatics & beyond 25
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-333) and index
ENGLISH SPEECH RHYTHM; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; TABLE OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; I. IS THERE RHYTHM IN SPEECH?; II. DISCOVERING RHYTHM IN ENGLISH SPEECH; III. THE HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF SPEECH RHYTHM; IV. ANALYZING SPEECH RHYTHM AT TURN TRANSITIONS; V. ACCOUNTING FOR SPEECH RHYTHM AT TURN TRANSITIONS; VI. INTERPRETING SPEECH RHYTHM AT SEQUENCE-EXTERNAL JUNCTURES; VII. INTERPRETING SPEECH RHYTHM AT SEQUENCE-INTERNAL JUNCTURES; VIII. INTERPRETING SPEECH RHYTHM IN SPECIFIC ACTIVITY SEQUENCES; CONCLUSION.
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech r
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ISBN:1556192932
9027285837
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