English speech rhythm : form and function in everyday verbal interaction

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Label

English speech rhythm : form and function in everyday verbal interaction

Title remainder

form and function in everyday verbal interaction

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Creator

• Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
• Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth

Subject

• English language -- Rhythm
• English language -- Spoken English

Language

eng

Summary

This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech r

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• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central
• Pragmatics & beyond. New ser., 25

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

421/.6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PE1591

LC item number

.C68 1993eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography