Segmental and prosodic issues in romance phonology /

This paper explores the concept of linguistic rhythm classes through a series of studies exploiting metrics designed to quantify speech rhythm. We compared the rhythm of 'syllable-timed' French and Spanish with that of 'stress-timed' Dutch and English, finding that rate-normalise...

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Other Authors: Prieto i Vives, Pilar, Mascaró, Joan, Solé, Maria Josep
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007.
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 282.
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