The performance of the rhythm metrics ΔC,% V, PVIs and Varcos, said to quantify rhythm
class distinctions, was tested using English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean and Spanish …

This book offers the first comprehensive description of the prosody of nine Romance
languages that takes into account internal dialectal variation. Teams of experts examine the …

This study presents a method for analyzing speech rhythm using empirical mode
decomposition of the speech amplitude envelope, which allows for extraction and …

Recent research has shown that beat gestures (hand gestures that co-occur with speech in
spontaneous discourse) are temporally integrated with prosodic prominence and that they …

This study examines the development of speech rhythm in second language (L2) learners of
typologically different first languages (L1s) at different levels of proficiency. An empirical …

Abstract The former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was one of the most charismatic speakers of the
past decades. However, there is, as yet, no detailed quantitative profile of his way of …

Between-speaker variability of acoustically measurable speech rhythm [% V, Δ V (ln), Δ C
(ln), and Δ peak (ln)] was investigated when within-speaker variability of (a) articulation rate …

The development of speech rhythm in second language (L2) acquisition was investigated.
Speech rhythm was defined as durational variability that can be captured by the interval …

Phonological development was assessed in six alphabetic orthographies (English, French,
Greek, Icelandic, Portuguese and Spanish) at the beginning and end of the first year of …

More than 30 years have passed since Mehler et al.(1988) proposed that newborns can
discriminate between languages that belong to different rhythm classes: stress-, syllable-or …