Discovering Arabic Rhythm through a Speech Cycling Task

Zawaydeh, Bushra Adnan; Tajima, Kazuo; Kitahara, Mafuyu

doi:10.1075/cilt.230.04zaw

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“…This led some scholars to think that these categories were merely impressionistic as reported in Parkison (2002) and Zawaydeh et al (2002). However, Zawaydeh et al (2002) found empirical evidence that the classification is not impressionistic, as they found a difference among the three languages. For example, English and Arabic pattern similarly (e.g., both employ stress), while Japanese uses the mora.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Based on CA being categorized as a stress-timed language (Halle and Vergnaud 1987;McCarthy 1979b;Zawaydeh et al 2002), the second scenario states that segmentation will take place according to the target type. The first part of this scenario is that there will be an advantage for CV targets in all conditions and these targets will have the shortest responses regardless of the word type they occur with.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example Zawaydeh et al (2002) employing an innovative paradigm (Speech Cycling Task), a production task, investigated how different unrelated languages (i.e. English, Arabic, and Japanese) are rhythmically classified.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Role of the Syllable in the Segmentation of Cairene Spoken Arabic

Aquil

2011

J Psycholinguist Res

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The syllable as a perceptual unit has been investigated cross linguistically. In Cairene Arabic syllables fall into three categories, light CV, heavy CVC/CVV and superheavy CVCC/CVVC. However, heavy syllables in Cariene Arabic have varied weight depending on their position in a word, whether internal or final. The present paper investigates the role of the syllable in the segmentation of Cariene Arabic. It reports a psycholinguistic study; syllable monitoring that was conducted on 32 Egyptian Arabic native speakers to examine the perceptual role of the syllable in spoken connected language. Theoretical phonological studies have identified Cairene Arabic as a stress-timed language; however, psycholinguistic studies providing evidence for this theoretical finding are scarce. The present study which is a cross modal (visual and auditory) counterbalanced design, gives evidence for the role of the (CVC) syllable in the segmentation of Cairene spoken language.

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The Role of the Syllable in the Segmentation of Cairene Spoken Arabic

Aquil

2011

J Psycholinguist Res

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“…These syllables subserve entrainment to auditory rhythmic stimuli such as (in our case) a beating metronome. Importantly, the special coordinative role that stressed foot heads in English appear to play in speech cycling is also exhibited by stressed foot heads in Jordanian Arabic (Zawaydeh et al, 2002), accented heads of bimoraic feet in Japanese (Tajima, 1998;Tajima & Port, 2003), and heads of accentual phrases in Korean, a language which is argued to lack foot structure (Chung & Arvaniti, 2013). An open question concerns whether metrically prominent syllables lacking stress or accent might also occur in harmonic positions in speech cycling.…”

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Evidence for Metrical Prominence Asymmetries in Medʉmba

Franich

2018

AMP

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Headedness has played a crucial role in the characterization of metrical structure since the earliest proposals for its existence, with definitions of headedness typically relying on the notion of relative syllable prominence: heads are said to bear relatively greater prominence than nonheads. But what counts as prominent for the sake of headedness varies widely across languages, particularly where evidence for stress is weak or absent. The present work seeks to look beyond acoustic evidence for headedness by conceptualizing metrical prominence in terms of its coordinative role in speech timing. Here, we examine timing of metrically-prominent syllables in Medʉmba, a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. Medʉmba has no phonetic evidence of stress, but displays evidence of metrical prominence asymmetries at the word level. We use the speech cycling paradigm (Cummins & Port 1998) to compare results regarding the timing of metrically prominent syllables in Medʉmba with those from previous work on stressed syllables in English and accented syllables in Japanese and Korean, showing that a unified notion of metrical prominence can be applied across languages.

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“…One reason for such a conclusion is that speakers of different languages entrain speech to metronomes in different ways (cf. Zawaydeh et al, 2002;Tajima and Port, 2003). Some prefer for linguistics to deal only with phenomena that can be described with serially ordered symbols (Chomsky and Halle, 1968), implying that linguistics is defined by the familiar conceptual model of letters.…”

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The problem of speech patterns in time

Port

2012

The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics

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One of the ways in which spoken languages differ from each other is in the temporal patterning of speech. These temporal patterns can be examined on several time scales, from very local (subsegmental and segmental) to global. The global patterns lasting from a quarter second to a second or so are most noticeable when we listen to speech in any language but our own. We may also become aware of rhythmic patterns in our own language when we hear it spoken by someone whose native language is something else. Presumably there is some kind of pattern in the timing of speech gestures that accounts for our perception of rhythmic differences between languages. This article examines the problem of speech patterns in time, two conceptual frames for temporal patterns in speech (symbol strings and cycles), global timing constraints (“stress-timed” vs. “syllable-timed” languages), regular “mora timing” in Japanese, harmonic timing effect, modelling rhythm with dynamical systems, and phrase edge timing phenomena.

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Discovering Arabic Rhythm through a Speech Cycling Task

Cited by 10 publications

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The Role of the Syllable in the Segmentation of Cairene Spoken Arabic

The Role of the Syllable in the Segmentation of Cairene Spoken Arabic

Evidence for Metrical Prominence Asymmetries in Medʉmba

The problem of speech patterns in time

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