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Something about the perception of rhythm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Elizabeth Uldall
Elizabeth Uldall
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Late of the Linguistics Department, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, UK.
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In 1972 (Uldall (1972)) I measured the durations of all the two-syllable rhythmic feet in Professor David Abercrombie's reading of ‘The North Wind and the Sun’, to see how they fitted his three types of two-syllable feet (Abercrombie (1964)), A short-long, B equal-equal, and C long-short (with a word-boundary between the syllables). I measured all the segments in the words, on broad band spectrograms. The text had been marked for stress by Professor Abercrombie while listening to the tape.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , June 1986 , pp. 46 - 47
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1986

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References

Abercrombie, D. (1964). Syllable quantity and enclitics in English. In Abercrombie, D., Fry, D.B., MacCarthy, P.A.D., Scott, N.C. and Trim, J.L.M. (editors) In Honour of Daniel Jones. London: Longman, 216–222.Google Scholar
Uldall, E. (1972). Relative durations of syllables in two-syllable rhythmic feet in R.P. in connected speech. Work in Progress 5. Department of Linguistics, Edinburgh University, 110–111.Google Scholar