Linguistic structure and articulatory dynamics : a cross-language study

In the study reported here, movement data were analyzed for paradigm representatives of the three most widely recognized temporal organization categories: English for stress timing, Japanese for mora timing, and French for syllable timing. Data from the three languages were elicited and analyzed as commensurately as possible, using the experimental methodology employed originally by Kelso, Vatikiotis-Bateson, Saltzman, and Kay (1985) for two speakers of English. The primary aim was to show the extent to which simple kinematic analysis of a primary articulator (the lower lip-jaw complex) can reveal universal and language-specific aspects of temporal organization and prosody.

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