Wagner, Petra: The rhythm of language and speech: Constraints, models, metrics and applications. 2008
Inhalt
- Motivation and Prolegomena
- Motivation
- Rhythmic structure is an independent property of languages
- Rhythmic patterning simplifies cognitive and linguistic processes
- Prolegomena
- Rhythm Production and Perception
- General Aspects of Processing Auditory Events in Time
- Objective vs. subjective time
- Processing the Continuous Time Stream
- Duration Estimation
- Temporal Instants and Time Spans
- Perception of Tempo
- Implications for the Rhythmical Processing of Speech
- Fundamental Entities of Rhythm
- The Perception of Fundamental Beats
- Detecting Fundamental Beats in Music
- Detecting Fundamental Beats in Speech
- Defining Fundamental Beats in Linguistic Models
- Implications for Rhythm Research
- Grouping Beats
- Psychological Principles of Grouping
- Creating Groups via Accentuation
- Hierarchical Grouping
- Summary: The Fundamental Processes of Rhythmical Grouping
- Grouping Linguistic Structures
- Rhythmic Speech Production
- Fundamentals of Rhythmic Production, Predictability and Variation
- Implications for Speech Rhythm Research
- Conclusion: Building Blocks for Rhythm Research
- Measuring Rhythm --- A Critical Assessment
- Measuring Variability and Isochrony
- Identifying Typological Constraints
- Metrics of Dispersion as Indicators of Timing Variability
- Early Variability Metrics
- Variability Metric by Ramus and Mehler, 1999.
- Measuring Rhythm with Pairwise Variability Indices
- Metrics Based on Vocalic Variation
- Quantifying Rhythmical Distributional Patterns
- Detecting Predictable Alternations with Time-Series Analysis
- Detecting General Deceleration Trends as Indicators for Rhythmical Grouping
- Rhythmical Hierarchies
- Conclusion
- Multidimensional Classification
- Step 1: Exploring Local and Global Variability
- Phonological Analysis
- Visualization of Beat Timing in Time Delay Plots
- Quantitative Interpretation of Time Delay Plots
- Step 2: Exploring Long Term Timing Regularities
- Step 3: Modeling Rhythmical Expectations
- Step4: Other Acoustic Domains
- Step 5: Perceptual Reality
- Stimulus Preparation
- Experiment 1: Language Identification
- Experiment 2: Language Identification through Discrimination
- Summary
- Applications
- Typological Classifications
- Investigating Varieties
- Speaking Styles
- Speech Technology
- Summary and Outlook
- Bibliography