This article reviews the evidence for rhythmic categorization that has emerged on the basis
of rhythm metrics, and argues that the metrics are unreliable predictors of rhythm which …

Phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech
sounds. Research in the past decades has clearly shown that speech is extremely variable …

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 provides the fullest account of Japanese phonology ever published. At the same
time it makes original contributions both to current understanding of the Japanese sound …

Like any other aspect of spoken language, rhythm needs to be, and has been, studied from
four different perspectives for a comprehensive and insightful account of its nature and …

This study investigates the speech rhythm of Cantonese and Bei**g Mandarin using some
recently developed acoustic rhythmic measures. The two languages were compared with …

This study addressed an issue in the theory of acoustic invariance. The question was
whether an invariant acoustic property exists for distinguishing Japanese single and …

This paper reexamines the issue of the mora, the foot and the syllable in Tokyo Japanese,
and shows that whereas the mora and the foot are indisputably present and active, the …

Speech production studies have shown that the phonological form of a word is made up of
phonemic segments in stress-timed languages (eg, Dutch) and of syllables in syllable-timed …

This study investigates the predictions of second language (L2) speech acquisition models—
SLM (-r), PAM (-L2), and L2LP—on how native (L1) Japanese speakers implement the …