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Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Concepts of rhythm
2 Rhythm and cognition
3 Rhythm and syntax in Germanic
3.1 Stress shift
3.2 Effects of rhythm on morphosyntactic change
3.3 Morphosyntactic effects of rhythm
References
Part 1: Concepts of rhythm
1 Grouping, symmetry, and rhythm in language
1 Introduction
2 Grouping of abstract visual patterns
a. Inherent grouping
b. Symmetry in the surface representation of structural relations
c. The role of hierarchy in surface representation
3 Grouping of abstract prosodic patterns
4 Grouping in actual speech utterances
5 Considerations on computing the rhythm of speech utterances
6 Summary
References
2 Speech rhythms – modelling the groove
1 Rhythm – listening closely
1.1 Background
1.2 Rhythm schema, rhythm interpretation and rhythm performance
2 Grooves and models
2.1 Definition and explicandum
2.2 The Jassem Rhythm Model and the Abercrombie Rhythm Model
3 The syllable is the mother of the groove
3.1 The Case of the missing ictus and the missing remiss
3.2 The Alternating Syllable Model: syllables as feet
3.3 The Syllable Extension Model
3.4 Syllables as feet, feet as syllable extensions
4 Groovy phonetics
4.1 Timing patterns: durations and duration differences
4.2 Syllable timing patterns
4.3 Jassem timing patterns
4.4 Abercrombie timing patterns
4.5 Conspectus of syllable and foot models
5 Measuring the groove
5.1 Mean Foot Length (MFL) and Percentage Foot Deviation (PFD) metric
5.2 Rhythmic Irregularity Measure (RIM) metric
5.3 The normalised Pairwise Variability Index metric
5.4 ΔC, %C; ΔV, %V segmental sequence ratio metrics
5.5 What do we do with the ‘smoothness metrics’?
6 Rocking the groove
7 The future of the groove
References
Part 2: Linguistic rhythm and cognition
3 The role of default stress patterns in German monolingual and L2 sentence processing
1 Introduction
2 Rhythm and meter: definition and delineation
2.1 Rhythm, beat, and meter
2.2 Meter and predictability
2.3 Meter and syntax
3 Method: Event-Related Potentials
3.1 Early Left Anterior Negativity (ELAN) and Left Anterior Negativity (LAN)
3.2 N400
3.3 P600
4 Experiments
4.1 Early Negativity
4.2 P600
4.3 Bilinguals
4.3.1 Patient population
5 A Neurofunctional model for auditory syntax processing
6 Conclusion
References
4 Stress clash hampers processing of noncanonical structures in reading
1 Introduction
1.1 Prosodic prominence and linguistic rhythm
1.2 Oral reading
1.3 The right-node-raising construction
1.3.1 Focus structure and prosody of RNR
1.3.2 Processing RNR
2 Experiment
2.1 Method
2.1.1 Design and material
2.1.2 Participants
2.1.3 Experimental procedure
2.1.4 Data analysis
2.2 Results
2.2.1 Flawed sentences
2.2.2 Phonetic analysis of judgment data
2.2.3 Placement of nuclear accent
3 Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgements
Appendix
References
5 Word prosody in focus and non-focus position: An ERP-study on the interplay of prosodic domains
1 Introduction
1.1 Prosodic hierarchy
1.2 EEG studies on prosodic processing
2 ERP-study on the relation between word prosody and sentence rhythm
2.1 Method
2.1.1 Material
2.1.2 Participants
2.1.3 Procedure
2.1.4 ERP measurements
2.2 Results
2.2.1 Behavioural data
2.2.2 ERP data
3 Discussion
3.1 Comparison of stress shifts in focus and non-focus positions
3.2 How do the present results relate to previous findings?
3.3 Interplay between word and sentence prosody
4 Conclusion
References
6 Short-term memory in speech perception and prosodic structuring – A syllable span test
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
2.1 Participants
2.2 Stimuli
2.3 Procedure
3 Results
3.1 The prosodic structuring experiment
3.2 The presentation rate experiment
4 Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Part 3: Rhythm and grammar in Germanic
7 Rhythmic influence on grammar: scope and limitations
1 Introduction
2 Evidence
2.1 Rhythmic influence on morphology
2.1.1 Redundant comparative marking
2.1.2 Suffixation of past participles
2.1.3 Adverbial marking
2.2 Rhythmic influence on syntax
2.2.1 Infinitival marking
2.2.2 Sequencing of colour adjectives
2.2.3 Placement of intensifier quite
2.2.4 Negation of attributive adjectives and sentence adverbs
3 Discussion and conclusion
References
Primary sources/databases
Secondary sources
8 Rhythm’s role in genitive construction choice in spoken English
Introduction
1 Rhythm and its role in syntactic construction choice
2 The data
3 Predictors
3.1 Rhythm
3.2 Other predictors
4 Modeling and analysis
5 Discussion
5.1 Eurhythmy Distance vs. Clash and Lapse
5.2 s-ED vs. of-ED: prosodic phrasing
5.3 Eurhythmy Distance vs. Comparative Eurhythmy Distance
6 Conclusion
References
9 Rhythmic preferences in morphosyntactic variation and the theory of loser candidates
1 Introduction
2 Derive-and-compare
2.1 Comparison-based decisions
2.2 Extended Rank-Ordering Model of Eval
3 Rhythmic constraints on variable morphosyntax
3.1 Variable subject case
4 Heavy relative clause extraposition
5 Conclusion
References
10 Function words in rhythmic optimisation
1 Variation in the perceived prominence of function words
2 Metrically triggered pronoun strengthening and reduction
3 Order preferences in German 3-verb clusters
3.1 Rhythmic regularity and acceptability
3.2 Rhythmic regularity in production
3.3 Acoustic analyses
4 Order preferences with pronominal adverbs
4.1 The production experiment
4.2 Acoustic analyses
5 Conclusion
References
11 Rhythm as a resource to generate prosodic coherence in lists
1 Introduction
2 Literature review
2.1 Previous work on lists
2.2 Previous work on rhythm as a capability
2.2.1 Defining rhythm
2.2.2 Rhythm and music
2.3 Previous work on rhythm in speech
3 Methodology
3.1 Terms used and assumptions made
3.2 Data and methods
3.3 Placing the beat and measuring isochrony
4 Analysis: features and uses of isochrony
4.1 Evidence of isochrony
4.2 Evidence of active isochrony generation
4.3 Positioning of talk relative to the beat
4.4 Continuation of rhythmic talk outside of the list
4.5 Use of silent beats
4.6 Different levels of rhythm
4.7 Summary
5 Results and observations
5.1 Comparisons with Auer et al. (1999)
5.2 Lists in questions
6 Discussion
6.1 Problems with the analysis
6.2 Rhythm outside of lists
6.3 Non-rhythmic lists
7 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Index
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