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Do Rhythm Measures Reflect Perceived Rhythm?

  • William Barry , Bistra Andreeva and Jacques Koreman
From the journal Phonetica

Abstract

In a production study, Bulgarian, English and German verses with regular poetic metrical metres of different types and elicited prose utterances with varied accentual patterns are produced in textual and iterative (dada) form and measured at syllable level according to the pairwise variability index (PVI) principle. Systematic differences in PVI values show that the measure is sensitive to metrical differences. But variations for utterances with the same metrical structure and comparable measures for accentually different utterances show the measure to be insensitive to the temporal distribution of accents. A perceptual experiment with Bulgarian, English and German subjects confirms the hypothesis that the perceived strength of rhythmicity in a line of verse is determined not only by its temporal structure, but also by other acoustic properties, most clearly by F₀ change within the metrical foot.


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Received: 2008-09-15
Accepted: 2009-01-20
Published Online: 2009-04-08
Published in Print: 2009-04-01

© 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel

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