English speech rhythm : form and function in everyday verbal interaction / Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen.

This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-sc...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1993.
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 25.
Subjects:	English language > Rhythm. English language > Spoken English. English language > Rhythm English language > Spoken English