Experiment on cross-linguistic analysis of temporal patterns in speech
1. The goal of the experiment:
Reading list:
Grabe, E., & Low, E. L. (2002). Durational variability in speech and the rhythm class hypothesis. Papers in laboratory phonology, 7(515-546).
Arvaniti, A. (2012). The usefulness of metrics in the quantification of speech rhythm. Journal of Phonetics, 40(3), 351-373.
Additionally you can refer to this publication:
Arvaniti, A. (2009). Rhythm, timing and the timing of rhythm. Phonetica, 66(1-2), 46-63.
- investigate temporal structure of utterances quantitatively
- find out about differences and similarities among the languages
- interpret the results with reference to languages phonological structure and its phonetic implementation
- languages - traditionally assigned to different "rhythm classes" (phonotactics and phonology).
- how these differences can be measured? (see: rhythm metrics)
- what are the implications of this kind of research?
- speech data: origin and structure
- parameters
- quantitative and visual analysis
- speaking rate
- syllable duration
- rhythm measures: nPVI-V, rPVI-C, nPVI-syl
Reading list:
Grabe, E., & Low, E. L. (2002). Durational variability in speech and the rhythm class hypothesis. Papers in laboratory phonology, 7(515-546).
Arvaniti, A. (2012). The usefulness of metrics in the quantification of speech rhythm. Journal of Phonetics, 40(3), 351-373.
Additionally you can refer to this publication:
Arvaniti, A. (2009). Rhythm, timing and the timing of rhythm. Phonetica, 66(1-2), 46-63.