Journal article
Measuring child rhythm
- Abstract:
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Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English, Catalan and Spanish 2, 4 and 6 year-olds, and compared with the (adult-directed) speech of their mothers. Results reveal that child speech does not fall into a well-defined rhythmic class: for all three languages, it is more ‘vocalic’ (higher %V) than adult speech and has a tendency towards lower variability (when normalized for speech rate) in vocalic interval duration. Consonantal interval variability, howeve...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Language and Speech Journal website
- Volume:
- 55
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 203-229
- Publication date:
- 2011-09-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2011-09-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1756-6053
- ISSN:
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0023-8309
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- Copyright holder:
- Payne et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2011
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