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Tapping into linguistic rhythm
- Source :
- Laboratory Phonology, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2021), Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology; Vol 12, No 1 (2021); 11
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Open Library of the Humanities, 2021.
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Abstract
- Rhythmic properties of speech and language have been a matter of long-standing debates, with both traditional production and perception studies delivering controversial findings. The present study examines the possibility of investigating linguistic rhythm using movement-based paradigms. Informed by the theory and methods of sensorimotor synchronization, we developed two finger-tapping tasks (synchronization and reproduction), and tested them with English participants. The synchronization task required participants to tap along with the beat of a looped sentence while the reproduction task asked them to tap out the perceived beat patterns after listening to a sentence loop. The results showed that both tasks engaged participants in period tracking of a beat-like structure in the linguistic stimuli, though synchronization did so to a greater extent. Patterns obtained in the reproduction task tended to converge toward participants’ spontaneous tapping rates and showed a degree of regularization. Data collected in the synchronization task displayed a consistent anchoring of taps with the vowel onsets. Overall, synchronization performance with language resembled many well-established findings of sensorimotor synchronization with metronome and music. We conclude that our setting of the sensorimotor synchronization paradigm—finger tapping along with looped spoken phrases—is a valid experimentation tool for studying rhythm perception in language. published
- Subjects :
- Linguistics and Language
media_common.quotation_subject
phonetics, phonology, linguistics, psychology, music, movement sciences
Metronome
Language and Linguistics
law.invention
Task (project management)
speech rhythm
sensorimotor synchronization
Rhythm
law
Vowel
Perception
Synchronization (computer science)
Active listening
media_common
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
Linguistics
Speech rhythm, sensorimotor synchronization, motor reproduction, vowel onset, p-centre
Computer Science Applications
motor reproduction
Speech rhythm
vowel onset
p-centre
ddc:400
Psychology
Sentence
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18686354
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9fd1d87efaf53619a1098c73bfb4f712