Rhythms of Speech and Language: Physiology, Cognition, Culture

doi:10.1017/9781009295888

This book showcases the current state of the art of research on rhythm in speech and language. Decades of study have revealed that bodily rhythms are crucial for producing and understanding speech and language, and for understanding their evolution and variability across populations-not only adults, but also developmental and clinical populations. It is also clear that there is perplexing dimensionality and variability of rhythm within and across languages. This book offers the scientific foundation for harmonizing physiological universality and cultural diversity, fostering collaborative breakthroughs across research domains. Its fifty chapters cover physiology, cognition, and culture, presenting knowledge from neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, phonetics, and communication research. Ideal for academics, researchers, and professionals seeking interdisciplinary insights into the essence of human communication. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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21 - Preserving Prosody in Temporal Distortions of Speech
pp 367-382
- By Alistair Beith, Dale Barr, Rachel Smith
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22 - Rhythmic Alternation and Balance: A New Metric
pp 383-402
- By Isabelle Franz
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Section 4 - Diversity of Rhythm from Oral Speech to Music
pp 403-550
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23 - Time, Cohesion, Style: Rhythm Formants in Oral Narrative
pp 405-427
- By Dafydd Gibbon
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24 - Time to Pop the Cork? The Cork Exercise and Its Effects on Rhythm and Melody in a Public Speaker’s Presentation Task
pp 428-456
- By Oliver Niebuhr, Nafiseh Taghva, Malin Svensson Lundmark
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25 - Rhythmic Stimulation of Linguistic Performance: A Common Structure?
pp 457-470
- By Dávid György, Douglas Saddy, Sonja A. Kotz, Julie Franck
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26 - Characterizing Rhythmic Regularity in Speech and Song
pp 471-488
- By Meyha Chhatwal, Selina Sabetti-Franklin, Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden
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27 - Beats in Time across Music and Language
pp 489-510
- By Uli Reich, Martin Rohrmeier
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28 - Shared Mechanisms for the Processing of Rhythm in Music and Speech
pp 511-532
- By Anna Fiveash, Barbara Tillmann
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29 - Interaction Phonology: Rhythmic Coordination as Scaffold for Communicative Alignment
pp 533-550
- By Petra Wagner
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Section 5 - Rhythm across Languages
pp 551-626
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30 - Duration-Based and Acoustic Speech Rhythm Metrics
pp 553-565
- By Robert Fuchs
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31 - The Role of Prosodic Durational Variation in the Temporal Coordination of Utterances
pp 566-577
- By Saleh Ghadanfari, Laurence White
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32 - Individual and Language Differences in Rhythm Grouping Preferences: The Iambic–Trochaic Law Revisited
pp 578-596
- By Amalia Arvaniti, Hae-Sung Jeon
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33 - Cross-Linguistic Consistency of Speech Rhythms and Pending Questions: Evidence from Bilingual and Second-Language Speakers
pp 597-609
- By Sha Liu
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34 - Revisiting Rhythm in Romance Languages
pp 610-626
- By Camila Barros, Uli Reich, Andreas Dufter
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Section 6 - Rhythm in Language Acquisition
pp 627-740
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35 - Rhythm and Language Acquisition: A Temporal Sampling Perspective
pp 629-644
- By Usha Goswami
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36 - Neural and Behavioural Rhythmic Tracking during Language Acquisition: Findings, Methods, and Outstanding Issues
pp 645-663
- By Kanad N. Mandke, Sinead Rocha
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37 - Maturational Constraints on Tracking of Temporal Attention in Infant Language Acquisition
pp 664-686
- By Tineke M. Snijders, Katharina H. Menn
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38 - Rhythmic Structure in Cross-Modal Infant-Directed Communication
pp 687-706
- By Marina Kalashnikova, Laura Fernández-Merino, Sofia Russo
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39 - Prosody as an Entry Point into Language Structure in Early Language Acquisition
pp 707-715
- By Guro Stensby Sjuls, Mila Dimitrova Vulchanova, Judit Gervain
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40 - Acquisition of Similar versus Different Speech Rhythmic Class
pp 716-727
- By Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Rahul Sengupta
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41 - Speech Rhythms and Pupil Size
pp 728-740
- By Alan Langus, Mireia Marimon, Barbara Höhle
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Section 7 - Rhythm in Speech and Language Disabilities
pp 741-871
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42 - Speech Rhythm in Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant Listening
pp 743-765
- By Alexis Deighton MacIntyre
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43 - Melodic Intonation Therapy: The Ingredients That Make It Work
pp 766-784
- By Lauryn Zipse
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44 - Phonetic Adaptation and Rhythmic Entrainment in Interactive Language Use: Neural Mechanisms and Evidence from Individuals with Neurological Disorders
pp 785-800
- By Wolfram Ziegler, Ingrid Aichert
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45 - Rhythmic Processes in Stuttering and Parkinson’s Disease
pp 801-817
- By Simone Dalla Bella, Simone Falk
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46 - Speech Rhythm in Stuttering: Perception and Production
pp 818-854
- By Michela Russo, Fabrice Hirsch
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