Über den Rhythmus der Prosa

Marbe, Karl

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“…In relation to the first possibility -that Abercrombie's (1964) feet are not the correct immediate constituents of intonation units -it might alternatively, at first glance, seem to be of value to try applying Marbe's (1904) rhythmical units to English texts, since these have so far shown lawful behaviour in analyses of German texts (e.g. Best, 2002Best, , 2005 when spanning the gap from one stressed syllable to the next.…”

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“…However, Bouzon and Hirst did not apply the theoretical approach or textfiltering criteria from synergetic quantitative linguistics employed in the present work. It should, furthermore, be noted that the units which Jassem (1952) proposed (called the anacrusis and the narrow rhythm unit) do not stand in an immediate constituency relationship to intonation units, so -just as with Marbe's (1904) rhythmical units -it is not possible to examine Jassem's model at this level of phrasing within the framework of the Menzerath-Altmann law. Nevertheless, it would be possible to examine the relationship between the lengths of his narrow rhythm units (in syllables) and the mean lengths of syllables (in phonemes), and also to examine whether the lengths of Jassem's units follow a regular probability distribution.…”

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Units and Constituency in Prosodic Analysis: A Quantitative Assessment

Wilson

2016

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

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Drawing on methods from quantitative linguistics, this paper tests the hypothesis that the intonation unit is a valid language construct whose immediate constituent is the foot (and whose own immediate constituent is the syllable). If the hypothesis is true, then the lengths of intonation units, measured in feet, should abide by a regular and parsimonious discrete probability distribution, and the immediate constituency relationship between feet and intonation units should be further demonstrable by successfully fitting the Menzerath-Altmann equation with a negative exponent. However, out of sixteen texts from the Aix-MARSEC database, only six share a common probability distribution and only eight exhibit a tolerable fit of the Menzerath-Altmann equation. A failure rate of ≥ 50% in both cases casts doubt on the validity of the hypothesis.

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Units and Constituency in Prosodic Analysis: A Quantitative Assessment

Wilson

2016

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

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“…The present paper paves the way for additional insights into the reading of prose. Thus, especially with regard to literary prose, it is a far cry from the relatively simplistic, binary prominence models, that first tried to capture literary rhythms (see Marbe 1904;Kagarov 1928, and Lipsky 1907, for early intuitive attempts and, e.g., Best 2002Kaßel 2002, andKnaus 2008, for more systematic and sophisticated versions).…”

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“…Ladd 1988;Wagner 2005;Kentner & Féry 2013) as well as discourse-semantic effects. We consider this an advantage rather than a disadvantage: First, annotations based on semantic information rely on the individual coder's interpretation and may therefore not be generalizable (see, for instance, early attempts by Marbe 1904;Kagarov 1928, andLipsky 1907, who did not differentiate between semantic and other linguistic information).…”

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Prosodic Phrasing and Syllable Prominence in Spoken Prose. A Validated Coding Manual

Franz¹,

Knoop²,

Kentner³

et al. 2022

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Current systems for predicting prosodic prominence and boundaries in texts focus on syntax/semantic-based automatic decoding of sentences that need to be annotated syntactically (Atterer & Klein 2002; Windmann et al. 2011). However, to date, there is no phonetically validated replicable system for manually coding prosodic boundaries and syllable prominence in longer sentences or texts. Based on work in the fields of metrical phonology (Liberman & Prince 1977), phrase formation (Hayes 1989) and existing pause coding systems (Gee and Grosjean 1983), we developed a manual for coding prosodic boundaries (with 6 degrees of juncture) and syllable prominence (8 degrees). Three independent annotators applied the coding system to the beginning pages of four German novels and to four short stories (20 058 syllables, Fleiss kappa .82). For the phonetic validation, eight professional speakers read the excerpts of the novels aloud. We annotated the speech signal automatically with MAUS (Schiel 1999). Using PRAAT (Boersma & Weenink 2019), we extracted pitch, duration, and intensity for each syllable, as well as several phonetic parameters for pauses, and compared all measures obtained to the theoretically predicted levels of syllable prominence and prosodic boundary strength. The validation with the speech signal shows that our annotation system reliably predicts syllable prominence and prosodic boundaries. Since our annotation works with plain text, there are many potential applications of the coding system, covering research on prose rhythm, synthetic speech and (psycho)linguistic research on prosody.

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Technical Rhythms and Harmonies

Rojas¹

2021

Reprising Craftsmanship

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Über den Rhythmus der Prosa

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Units and Constituency in Prosodic Analysis: A Quantitative Assessment

Units and Constituency in Prosodic Analysis: A Quantitative Assessment

Prosodic Phrasing and Syllable Prominence in Spoken Prose. A Validated Coding Manual

Technical Rhythms and Harmonies

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