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Couper-Kuhlen Elizabeth |
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Titolo |
English speech rhythm : form and function in everyday verbal interaction / / Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.] : , : J. Benjamins, , 1993 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-09267-0 |
9786613092670 |
90-272-8583-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 346 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Pragmatics & beyond. New ser., , 0922-842X ; ; 25 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Rhythm |
English language - Spoken English |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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ENGLISH SPEECH RHYTHM; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; TABLE OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; I. IS THERE RHYTHM IN SPEECH?; II. DISCOVERING RHYTHM IN ENGLISH SPEECH; III. THE HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF SPEECH RHYTHM; IV. ANALYZING SPEECH RHYTHM AT TURN TRANSITIONS; V. ACCOUNTING FOR SPEECH RHYTHM AT TURN TRANSITIONS; VI. INTERPRETING SPEECH RHYTHM AT SEQUENCE-EXTERNAL JUNCTURES; VII. INTERPRETING SPEECH RHYTHM AT SEQUENCE-INTERNAL JUNCTURES; VIII. INTERPRETING SPEECH RHYTHM IN SPECIFIC ACTIVITY SEQUENCES; CONCLUSION |
APPENDIX I. INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF PERCEPTUALLY ISOCHRONOUS SEQUENCES IN THE OPEN LINE FRAGMENT; APPENDIX II. INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF PERCEPTUALLY NON-ISOCHRONOUS SEQUENCES IN THE OPEN LINE FRAGMENT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS; The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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