Acoustic correlates of linguistic rhythm: perspectives

By Franck Ramus. Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2002

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The empirical grounding of a typology of languages' rhythm is again a hot issue. The currently popular approach is based on the durations of vocalic and intervocalic intervals and their variability. Despite some successes, many questions remain. The main findings still need to be generalised to much larger corpora including many more languages. But a straightforward continuation of the current work faces many difficulties. Perspectives are outlined for future work, including proposals for the cross-linguistic control of speech rate, improvements on the statistical analyses, and prospects raised by automatic speech processing.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Calibrating rhythm: First language and second language studies (2007, background): “also applied Ramus et al.’s IM, finding that DV showed a similar pattern to the nPVI-V. They questioned the utility of %V, as it did not reflect the hypothesised differences between the accents. Grabe and Low (2002) showed, however, that Singapore English is only slightly more syllable-timed than Br”
• Rhythm and Speech Rate: A Variation Coefficient for deltaC (2006, background): “…for varco C support the views that a) according to varco C rhythm classes seem to be better differentiable and b) some languages tend to vary in rhythm as a function of speech rate (German, English), while the rhythm of other languages seems to be unaffected by changes in speech rate (French).”
• Rhythm, Timing and the Timing of Rhythm (2009, background): “2 2 Qualifying the success of metrics In their seminal paper, Ramus et al. [1999] tested several ways of quantifying durational profiles and concluded that of these %V and ΔC best reflect rhythmic type.”
• Intonational pitch accent distribution in Egyptian Arabic. (2006, background): “Both analyse the EA pronunciation of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), from radio broadcasts, in the case of Rifaat (2004), and from a corpus of recorded speech in the case of El Zarka (1997).”