Studies on rhetorical features of language have reported both enhancing and adverse
effects on ease of processing. We hypothesized that two explanations may account for these …

" Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures.
This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions …

Since antiquity, the concept of melody has been related not only to music, but also to
language, specifically poetic language. However, while melodic properties of music were …

" Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest
China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from …

This chapter provides an introduction to the phenomenon of prosodic focus, as well as to the
theory of Alternative Semantics. Alternative Semantics provides an insightful account of what …

Rhyme occurs when two or more words are phonologically identical from the final stressed
vowel onward. However, there are several types of so-called imperfect rhymes in which …

The fact that “purely” prosodic marking of focus may be weaker in some languages than in
others, and that it varies in certain circumstances even within a single language, has not …

In reading conventional poems aloud, the rhythmic experience is coupled with the projection
of meter, enabling the prediction of subsequent input. However, it is unclear how top-down …

Poetry and language are intimately connected. Language has a poetic function (Jakobson,
1960) which uses the pure aesthetics of the message without considering its content; it is the …

This study examined whether Korean learners of English attained native-like performance in
English focus prosody by conducting production and perception experiments using digit …