English Speech Rhythm and the Foreign Learner

Abercrombie accent acoustic correlates acoustic parameters action potentials adjudicators amplitude auditory beat breath group cadences connected speech correlates of stress David Abercrombie duration electromyographic EMG of internal end level English speech rhythm experimental experiments feature foreign learner fundamental frequency ibid intensity intercostal muscle activity internal intercostal muscle intonation investigation isochronism Ladefoged language Lehiste linguistic listener localized bursts London means measure metrical movement muscular activity native and non-native native speakers non-native speakers non-native subjects normal number of syllables nursery rhyme observed occur Oscillographic Oscillographic recording pattern Patterson pauses perception Peter Ladefoged phonetic phoneticians phrase physiological pitch Pitch Accent points produced programme prose prosodic pulse respiratory rhythm units rhythmic impulse says sense groups sentence significant sound speakers of English spoken English Stetson stress placement stressed and unstressed stressed syllables structure syllable-timed syllable-timed languages test items theory Type utterance of item verse vide supra vowel words