In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

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 …

Rhythm characterizes most natural phenomena: heartbeats have a rhythmic organization,
and so do the waves of the sea, the alternation of day and night, and bird songs. Language …

Patterns of durational variation were examined by applying 15 previously published rhythm
measures to a large corpus of speech from five languages. In order to achieve consistent …

Syllables are often considered to be central to infant and adult speech perception. Many
theories and behavioral studies on early language acquisition are also based on syllable …

À la première occasion qui s 'offrira au jeune de quitter sa réserve, son groupe familier
affectif, pour aller se présenter à une embauche par exemple, seul, face à un employeur qui …

Early research on speech rhythm subscribed to the notion of isochrony, which advocates
that the perception of rhythm in speech is based on the regular recurrence of some form of …

Purpose: Acoustic–prosodic entrainment, defined as the tendency for individuals to modify
their speech behaviors to more closely align with the behaviors of their conversation partner …

A general account of rhythm in human behaviour is provided, according to which rhythm
inheres in the affordance that a signal provides for the entrainment of movement on the part …

Variation has not been a major concern of prosodic typologists. Frequently, it is treated as
noise in the data and held to conceal what is really important about the prosodic structure of …