Over the past decade, fluent reading has come to be seen as a central component of skilled
reading and a driving force in the literacy curriculum. However, much of this focus has …

Background: Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders present with unusual or odd‐
sounding prosody. Despite this widely noted observation, prosodic ability in autism spectrum …

This work is an investigation of the relation between prosodic structure, intonational structure
and (some instances of) focus realisation in European Portuguese (EP). The prosodic …

Whether some languages or dialects are spoken faster or slower than others constitutes a
gap in the understanding of sociolinguistic variation. Speech tempo is interconnected with …

The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of text difficulty on the oral reading
prosody of young children. Fluency in reading is ideally determined by measuring rate …

This paper investigates the contrasting rhythmic properties of two varieties of English:
Singapore English, which is often described as syllable-timed, and British English, which is …

Although previous research has shown that listeners can use prosody to resolve syntactic
ambiguities in spoken sentences, it is not clear whether naive, untrained speakers in …

Understanding the structure of sociolinguistic variation requires understanding what
information it coveys to listeners and how. Variation not only correlates with social structures …

In 1986, I wrote a book with the audacious title of “The Brain Code,” which summarized the
findings from neuropsychology indicating a particular view of hemispheric specialization …

Prosodic rhythm was measured for a sample of 20 African American and 20 European
American speakers from North Carolina using the metric devised by Low, Grabe and Nolan …