El acentό dislocadό - pues cantadό - castellanό: On Explaining Stress-Shift in Song-Texts from Spanish (and Certain Other Romance Languages)

Janda, Richard; Morgan, Terrell A.

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“…Such behavior, which has already been demonstrated for a number of languages (see §3), is uniquely predicted by the dynamical model, since reference to such dynamic phonetic properties is not possible within traditional rule-or constraint-based models. This behavior is also closely tied to the types of coordinative patterns often observed between metrical prominence and musical beat strength across different languages and musical traditions (Dell & Halle 2009, Janda & Morgan 1988, Lerdahl & Jackendoff 1983, Nancarrow 2010, Pau 2015, Tarlinskaja 1993, Temperley & Temperley 2012. As I argue in §5, these coordinative properties of metrically prominent syllables constitute an important unifying property of metrical structure across languages.…”

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Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language

Franich¹

2021

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There has been considerable debate as to whether word-level metrical prominence asymmetries are a universal feature of languages. African tone languages have been at the heart of this debate, as many of these languages do not show clear phonetic evidence of lexical stress. This article explores metrical prominence asymmetries in Medʉmba, a Grassfields Bantu language, by examining such asymmetries through the lens of speech timing. Forged within a dynamical model of metrical structure, a metronome-based phrase-repetition task known as speech cycling is used to investigate the relative timing of syllables hypothesized to be metrically prominent and metrically weak. Previous research using the task has shown that metrically prominent syllables are attracted to certain relative positions within a repetition cycle. Results of two experiments show that foot heads in Medʉmba also show this behavior, supporting their status as metrically prominent. These results suggest that true metrical prominence asymmetries exist in a broader range of languages than previously thought, and that relative timing serves as an important unifying property of metrical structure crosslinguistically.*

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Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language

Franich¹

2021

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Prosodic and Musical Prominence in Portuguese Folk Verse

Veloso

2021

Language, Music and Gesture: Informational Crossroads

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Why Does Speech Sometimes Sound Like Song? Exploring the Role of Music-Related Priors in the “Speech-to-Song Illusion”

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Dalla Bella

2024

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The speech-to-song illusion is a perceptual effect emerging at the interplay of two cognitive domains, music and language. It arises upon repetitions of a spoken phrase that shifts to being perceived as song, and varies in the likelihood, ease, and vividness of its occurrence among individuals. A prevailing explanation of the illusion suggests that listeners’ attention shifts to rhythm and melody of the phrase once their involvement with the linguistic meaning subsides. The present study tested this mechanism by manipulating meaning plausibility and structural complexity of French and English phrases and by obtaining measures of attentional and working memory capacity from 80 French and English listeners who were exposed to repetitions of sentences in their native language. The results show that the transformation was facilitated in listeners with fewer cognitive resources and in less plausible, more complex phrases, which is at odds with the previously proposed mechanism underpinning the speech-to-song illusion. The illusion-promoting effect of musical training was visible only in simple but not in complex phrases. We propose a new account of the perceptual transformation from speech to song as a cognitive effect arising from the accumulation of music-related priors in a linguistically ambiguous context of massed repetitions.

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El acentό dislocadό - pues cantadό - castellanό: On Explaining Stress-Shift in Song-Texts from Spanish (and Certain Other Romance Languages)

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Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language

Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language

Prosodic and Musical Prominence in Portuguese Folk Verse

Why Does Speech Sometimes Sound Like Song? Exploring the Role of Music-Related Priors in the “Speech-to-Song Illusion”

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