NDLI: Rhythmic constraints on English stress timing

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Author	Cummins, F. Port, R.F.
Copyright Year	1996
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Linguistics & Cognitive Sci. Prog., Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA (Cummins, F.)
Abstract	The evidence for isochrony of stress timing is weak for ordinary prose, but this does not mean that the timing of stresses is always unaffected by global constraints. We asked subjects to continually repeat the phrase "Take a pack of cards" and to temporally align the words "take" and "cards" with an auditorily presented stimulus consisting of just the words "take" and "cards" repeated several times. The phase of the "cards" stimulus relative to a reference cycle defined by the "take"-"take" interval was varied over the range 0.3-0.65 in eight equal-sized phase steps. The distribution of produced phases for the vowel onset of the syllable "cards" was trimodal: subjects showed a powerful preference for phases close to 0.5 and somewhat weaker preferences for phases near 0.36 and 0.6. These values are close to those predicted by a harmonic model for stress timing. The distribution had this form whether the subjects were speaking along with the stimulus or trying to maintain the prescribed timing after cessation of the stimulus. The observed phase was influenced by the phase produced on previous trials, suggesting dynamic control with hysteresis between competing stable patterns of timing. These results demonstrate strong rhythmic constraints on the timing of stresses within a phrase. Modeling these constraints should provide insight into the form of a general dynamic control regime for global speech timing, and may allow improved characterization of natural timing patterns in English speech.
Starting Page	2036
Ending Page	2039
File Size	441319
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780335554
DOI	10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607200
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1996-10-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Natural languages Predictive models Cities and towns Speech enhancement Acoustic measurements Timing Cognitive science Strain control Power system modeling Stress
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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