2 Speech rhythms – modelling the groove

Gibbon, Dafydd

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“…In recent years, researchers have used these rhythm metrics to study a wide range of languages and accents [18,19,20,21,22]. However, criticisms of the rhythm metrics quickly followed, including computational issues, their instability because of speech rate, speaking style, withinspeaker variation, and measurement uncertainty, and their failure to clearly classify languages into alleged rhythm classes [18,23,24,25,26,27].…”

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The invalidity of rhythm class hypothesis

Wang¹,

Xu²,

Zhang³

2022

Speech Prosody 2022

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Languages are said to be stress-timed, syllable-timed or moratimed. In a stress-timed language, inter-stress intervals are or tend to be constant, hence, isochronous, while in a syllabletimed or mora-timed language, successive syllables or morae are or tent to be equal in duration. Empirical research has failed to find evidence of isochrony in any language, yet the hypothesis is now sustained by perception accounts or phonetic metrics that do not measure isochrony. We have re-examined the rhythm class hypothesis by looking for evidence of at least a tendency toward isochrony, through a comparison of English, an alleged stress-timed language, and Mandarin, an alleged syllable-timed language. The results show that in English, segments are not compressible to allow equal syllable duration, and syllables are incompressible to enable equal inter-stress interval duration and phrase duration. In contrast, Mandarin shows a small tendency toward both equal syllable duration and equal phrase duration. These findings are exactly the opposite of what would be predicted by the rhythm class hypothesis. We therefore argue that the hypothesis is not just flawed, but simply untenable, and the so-called rhythm classes should no longer be held as a basic fact of human language.

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The invalidity of rhythm class hypothesis

Wang¹,

Xu²,

Zhang³

2022

Speech Prosody 2022

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L’Hypothèse d’Isochronie Syllabique Initiale appliquée au français L2

Engel

2020

LIA

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Résumé L’objectif principal de cette étude pilote est de tester expérimentalement ce que nous appelons l’Hypothèse d’Isochronie Syllabique Initiale. Selon cette hypothèse, les apprenants de L2 passent par une phase initiale pendant laquelle leurs productions orales présentent les caractéristiques rythmiques des langues dites à isochronie syllabique (telles que l’espagnol et le français). Pour cela, nous analysons des récits oraux d’apprenantes débutantes de français ayant le suédois pour langue maternelle (n = 6). Ces productions sont comparées à celles d’un groupe de locutrices natives du français (n = 6) et d’un groupe de locutrices natives du suédois (n = 6). Les caractéristiques rythmiques des récits en français L2, français L1 et suédois L1 sont étudiées à partir de deux mesures acoustiques, notamment le coefficient de variation de la durée syllabique, dont l’utilisation est préconisée par Patel (2008) pour déterminer si une langue est de type accentuel ou syllabique. Les mesures acoustiques employées permettent de confirmer que le français et le suédois appartiennent à des familles rythmiques distinctes. Les résultats de l’étude vont cependant à l’encontre de l’Hypothèse d’Isochronie Syllabique Initiale.

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2 Speech rhythms – modelling the groove

Abstract: Thesis: There is no speech rhythm. There are only speech rhythms.

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The invalidity of rhythm class hypothesis

The invalidity of rhythm class hypothesis

L’Hypothèse d’Isochronie Syllabique Initiale appliquée au français L2

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