English speech rhythm
English speech rhythm
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英语演讲节奏
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1993
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E. Couper
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E. Couper
这本专著重新考虑了语音等时性的问题，即（重读）音节在时间上的规律复发，从经验的角度来看。本文提出了一种从听觉上发现语音等时性并在声学实验室中进行仪器验证的方法。在一项对英语会话摘录的小规模研究中，等时性产生的格式塔式节奏结构显示出层次结构。在此基础上，对英美两国广播电话节目和家庭餐桌对话语料库进行了大规模的研究，探讨了言语节奏在转折转折中的作用。本文认为，在日常英语会话中，言语节奏可以作为一个衡量转折时间的指标。一个过渡的特定节奏结构可以说是将下一个转置于语境中，一般来说，与前一个转有隶属关系或不隶属关系。实证研究表明，日常英语会话中转折转折的语言节奏模式并不是随机发生的，也不是社会心理适应过程的结果，而是在交际过程中系统地产生和解释语言意义的语境化线索。
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt -like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech rhythm at turn transitions is investigated. It is argued that speech rhythm serves as a metric for the timing of turn transitions in casual English conversation. The articular rhythmic configuration of a transition can be said to contextualize the next turn as, generally speaking, affiliative or disaffiliative with the prior turn. The empirical investigation suggests that speech rhythm patterns at turn transitions in everyday English conversation are not random occurrences or the result of a social-psychological adaptation process but are contextualization cues which figure systematically in the creation and interpretation of linguistic meaning in communication.