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Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English

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Schwartz G.

Research in Language

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2010

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vol. 8

135-147

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This paper will examine rhythmic differences among native and non-native accents of English, and report on a pilot experiment investigating a hypothesized interaction between rhythm and vowel quality. A new metric, % SteadyState, an acoustic measure that quantifies the purity of vowels, appears to capture rhythmic differences that have been reported among various native and non-native accents of English. In the tradition of other recently developed rhythm metrics, these findings suggest a link between rhythm and segmental phonology. Additionally, the perspective gained from this study may be beneficial to learners whose goal is native-like vowel quality, offering an understanding of the dynamic properties of English vowels.

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Słuchanie jako doświadczenie somatyczne. O wierszach Edwarda Pasewicza

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Dziadek A.

Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne

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2015

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issue 2(7)

221-232

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The text is a synthetic description of Edward Pasewicz’s poetic work, which is included within the “plan for a somatic criticism.” The key operational concept used to describe this poetry is rhythm, which spreads out on all the levels of expression like a theme in a story and makes the texts of every poet unique and original. The rhythm is closely linked with the process of listening and with the body itself, which generates it. Following Charlers Berstein, the author performs an act of Close Listening, attempting to point out the relations between rhythm, the sphere of sound in Pasewicz’s poetic texts, and a speaking subject.

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Rhythmical Features of Spoken Chinese: Quantitative and Grammatical Analysis (Methodology)

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Svarny O.

Rocznik Orientalistyczny

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vol. Rocznik Orientalistyczny, T. 47, Z. 2 (1991)

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Rhythm is in the mind of the beholder. Remarks on the nature of linguistic rhythm

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Mołczanow J., Wiese R.

Linguistica Copernicana

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2014

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issue 11

169-182

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The aim of the present article is to provide a review and a critical assessment of current approaches to linguistic rhythm. At the perceptual level, languages are perceived to fall into three rhythmic groups: stress-timed, syllable-timed, and mora-timed. In stress-timed languages, stressed syllables are thought to occur at regular intervals of time, whereas in syllable-timed and mora-timed languages, syllables and moras are isochronous. Though numerous phonetic studies failed to confirm the objective existence of isochrony, there is ample evidence that rhythm plays a central role in language processing and that different languages have different underlying rhythmic structure. We argue that phonetically-based models which treat rhythm as an emergent property are insufficient to account for cross-linguistic variation and that the intuitive notion of rhythm should be explicitly modelled by drawing upon the concepts of a phonological theory.

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Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English

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Schwartz G.

Research in Language

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2010

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vol. 8

1-13

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In a sample of 27 speakers of Scottish Standard English two notoriously variable consonantal features are investigated: the contrast of /m/ and /w/ and non-prevocalic /r/, the latter both in terms of its presence or absence and the phonetic form it takes, if present. The pattern of realisation of non-prevocalic /r/ largely confirms previously reported findings. But there are a number of surprising results regarding the merger of /m/ and /w/ and the loss of non-prevocalic /r/: While the former is more likely to happen in younger speakers and females, the latter seems more likely in older speakers and males. This is suggestive of change in progress leading to a loss of the /m/ - /w/ contrast, while the variation found in non-prevocalic /r/ follows an almost inverse sociolinguistic pattern that does not suggest any such change and is additionally largely explicable in language-internal terms. One phenomenon requiring further investigation is the curious effect direct contact with Southern English accents seems to have on non-prevocalic /r/: innovation on the structural level (i.e. loss) and conservatism on the realisational level (i.e. increased incidence of [r] and [r]) appear to be conditioned by the same sociolinguistic factors.

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Polymetrie Polákovy Vznešenosti přírody

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Ibrahim R.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2007

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vol. 55

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issue 1

41-79

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The study deals with the polymetrics of Milota Zdirad Polák‘s (1788-1856) Vznešenost přírody (1819, The Sublime of Nature). This topic was not yet treated, not even in specialized studies (Jan Mukařovský, 1934; Miroslav Červenka, 1995). After a list of applied meters (Polák used a syllabotonic as well as quantitative prosody) the focus turns to a traditional hypothesis that meter is changed in relation to topic (or subtopic). This was not confirmed. However, metric alternation is not totally random: with the exception of cantos II. and V., there is some regularity: Písně (Songs) are in trochaic tetrameter, other parts (called Slavozpěvy, Chvalozpěvy, Mnohozpěvy etc) make, regarding to their numbers, length, and labeling, metrically heterogeneous lyrical insets. Their heterogeneity corresponds their very lyrical basis (link to the Boileau’s “un beau desordre” could be made as well). Trochaic tetrameter, an unusual meter not only in Czech literature, is with its 69% presence a preponderant meter. Motivation of its use could be seen in its inherent character (long verse lands to descriptions), but also in possible literary inspiration (in particular in European descriptive poetry, e.g. Thomson, Wieland, Ewald von Kleist). Although the trochaic tetrameter was not used in any of these examples, it appears in Brockes’ verse prologue to his (German) translation of Thomson’s The Seasons (translated 1745). On the other hand we cannot totally neglect the Czech context of the XVIII-Century. Descriptive poetry is very demanding for the reader. Yet Thomson sought ways how to make descriptive parts more vivid. Polák decided to solve this problem by rhythmical/metrical heterogeneity. (In coincidence with his main topic: heterogeneity of Nature.) This heterogeneity is better seen when one compares the former redaction of Vznešenost přírody (called Vznešenost přirozenosti, 1813) where the use of polymetrics is not so striking. The use of polymetrics in Vznešenost přírody was a novelty not only in the frames of genre (European descriptive poetry used just the monometrics), but also in the context of modern Czech literature – Mácha’s Máj (May), also polymetric, was published nearly twenty years later.

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ВИХОВАННЯ ВІДЧУТТЯ РИТМУ В ДІТЕЙ ДОШКІЛЬНОГО ТА МОЛОДШОГО ШКІЛЬНОГО ВІКУ ЗАСОБАМИ БОТМЕРІВСЬКОЇ ГІМНАСТИКИ

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Пахальчук Н.

Педагогічні науки: теорія, історія, інноваційні технології

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2015

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issue 7(51)

261-269

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The article presents the content and characteristics of physical exercises that promote the development of rhythm of preschoolers and children of early school age. There was solved an anthroposophic approach to the question we had researched. An attempt was made to adapt exercises of Botmer gymnastics towards Ukrainian folk traditions. There was denoted the methodological advice for improving a child's sense of rhythm in the process of physical education: to pay attention to changing from tension to relaxation of muscles, to enhance mental processes of children in the early stages of improvement, to focus on simple exercises and so on. There was determined that proposed exercises can be adapted and used in work with children, who have special needs. Research methods: theoretical analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization and systematization of scientific literature; study and generalization of pedagogical experience were used to solve the problem. An active introduction of innovative technologies is used in modern conditions of the development of education. In this context, gymnastics as a system of specially selected exercises has got some powerful possibilities to solve the problems, which improve the general state of the health. An innovative method of the health gymnastics is aimed at the development of close connection of the child’s motor skills with the natural rhythms of the universe and the achievement of harmony between the personality and the environment. The process of education reforming promotes the implementation of alternative approaches to organization of health caring rhythm at human life. Botmer gymnastics is a type of movement that uses the power of space. The person, who is engaged in it, is learning to expand his physical, mental and spiritual boundaries, receiving gradual experience of movement in space and the ability to explore space consciously. Botmer exercises allow us to find equilibrium, which promotes to balance business and personal life in general, solves the problem of the physical and aesthetic education of the individual according to the age peculiarities of development. The problems of ethnic and national traditions consideration in the use of Botmer gymnastics at work with children of preschool and early school age require further research.

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Rytm w perspektywach: lingwistycznej i neurobiologicznej

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Młynarska G.

Investigationes Linguisticae

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2015

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issue 32

53-83

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This article is about rhythm from the linguistic and neurobiological perspectives. Comparing data from both domains could enable clarification of (long–term) confusion in acoustic and conceptual ideas of rhythm as well as providing a multidimensional definition of this category with solid neurobiological grounding and taking aspects of modeling speech production into consideration.

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Eestirootsi keele prosoodia tunnusjooni

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Asu E. L.

Mäetagused

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2017

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vol. 68

9-26

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Estonian Swedish was traditionally spoken on the western coast and islands of Estonia. Nowadays, it is almost extinct, surviving only as a language of occasional communication of some elderly speakers who emigrated from Estonia to Sweden as children during World War II. Estonian Swedish is a typologically interesting variety of Swedish, as it retains a number of archaic segmental features (e.g. Old Scandinavian diphthongs) and has been influenced by its most important contact language, Estonian. The article addresses such aspects of Estonian Swedish prosody as word accents and rhythm. An investigation of the realisation of tonal accents in disyllabic words showed that Estonian Swedish (like Finland Swedish) lacks the lexical pitch accent distinction that is characteristic of Standard Swedish. A comparative study of rhythm in read speech explored the hypothesis that Estonian Swedish may be intermediate between Swedish (as represented by Central Swedish from the Stockholm area) and Estonian. The results showed, however, that the durational values of Estonian Swedish rhythm are very similar to those of Central Swedish.

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Rate Limits of Sensorimotor Synchronization

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Repp B.

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

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2006

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vol. 2

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issue 2-3

163-181

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Empirical evidence for upper and lower rate limits of sensorimotor synchronization (typically, finger tapping with an auditory or visual event sequence) is reviewed. If biomechanical constraints are avoided, the upper rate limit can be as high as 8-10 Hz (sequence event inter-onset intervals of 100-125 ms) with auditory stimuli, but has been found to be less than 2.5 Hz (> 400 ms) with simple visual stimuli (flashes of light). The upper rate limit for auditory stimuli varies with task difficulty and musical experience; that for visual stimuli requires further investigation. The lower rate limit, according to one definition, tends to be at about 0.56 Hz (1800 ms), regardless of modality. Attentional, perceptual, and sensorimotor explanations of these limits are considered. Rate limits of sensorimotor synchronization place important constraints on musical ensemble performance and other forms of rhythmic coordination.

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Mythos Rhythmos Halt, Fluss und Wiederkehr

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Hotz A.

Rozprawy Naukowe Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego we Wrocławiu

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2013

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issue 40

7-13

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The paper presents the author’s personal approach towards selected aspects of manifestation of one of the coordination abilities, namely rhythmization. Rhythm creates, orders and shapes spatial and temporal relationships. In motor action its impulse concentrates energy and adjusts it to the form of the movement. It is manifested in the form of timing. Timing controls rhythm, and rhythm develops timing. Rhythm maintains energy expenditure in a given direction and includes pulsating elements of imbalance of this state into it, thus creating cohesion of movement. Rhythm is the key to coordination functions. Also a well selected rhythm finally leads to coherent formation of fluent balance of movement. Besides, harmony serves cohesion and not the other way round. Cohesion. Comprehensive sense of rhythm leads to showing cohesion through orientation and as a result through diversifying integration. The concept of rhythm must be an individual scaffolding of the form of movement, thus becoming an anatomy of a motor action. Eventually, motor action is formed when it is possible to integrate the function and structure in the form of the technique of movement in such a manner that the form of movement presented constitutes a solution to the problem. Energy administered in time and space. Timing, the key competence of rhythmic formation of movement, determines its precision. Proper energy in time and point in space translates into economic control and fully dosed velocity of movement. Measure and tempo. To achieve free formation of motor activity through rhythm of stillness and movement, tempo sets an impulse as a drive to be used in determination of measure, and subsequently its maintenance. Thanks to the measure and pace, “learning through the rhythm” becomes a sensible principle in acquisition and use of movement as such, and not only formation of the movement with music. Fascination with balance in form. Fascination with balance in an alternating game between variants of the form and permanence of the essence is through openness (freedom) and limitation (safety) of the space still arranged again. The measurable nature (or not) of balance (or not) between safety (orientation) and freedom (formation) increases or decreases the intensity of their attractiveness. Rhythm as a personality. In the type of links and the manner of connecting the elements of fluidity a specific peculiarity of the fascinating rhythm is crystallized as a motor peculiarity. And finally: The importance of rhythm convinces [us] first through unanimity in orientation marked with function, subsequently by diversification in an organized combination of structure and finally also through creative integration to the task accentuated by situations and adjusting the technical form to its solution.

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Text rhythmic system: Its energetic and subliminal potentials

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Kalyta A.

Linguistics Beyond and Within

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2016

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vol. 2

97-110

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The article introduces scientific considerations concerning the energetic nature and origin of rhythm subliminal potential in a spoken text as well as the mechanisms of its impact on the recipient. The paper advances the idea that rhythm energetics and its subliminal potential is based on such postulates: (1) rhythm is generated in the speaker’s psyche at the levels of his/her unconscious (or existential being) and subconscious (or mental and transcendental beings) spheres; (2) the text rhythmic system has a definite emotional and pragmatic potentials that realize a latent manipulative and subliminal influence; (3) generation of the spoken text tempo-rhythm is carried out by means of integrating micro-rhythms of all levels of the speaker’s inner speech into the internal macro-rhythm, which is materialized in the form of an outer tempo-rhythm as a complex means of achieving a subliminal effect of speech. The article also outlines the prospects of studying a subliminal nature of rhythm.

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Tekst ciała, ciało tekstu

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Skrendo A.

Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne

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2015

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issue 2(7)

235-239

EN

A review of Adam Dziadek’s Projekt krytyki somatycznej (2014) [Plan for a Somatic Criricism]. The author emphasises originality of Dziadek’s conception, which combines certain structuralist and poststructuralist elements. As a result, Dziadek describes the text of a body: its manifestations or traces in the matter of language (above all, rhythm); at the same time he is interested in the body of a text: a mechanism of reading which transcends the aesthetic norm.

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Cognitive and affective judgements of syncopated musical themes

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Keller P., Schubert E.

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

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2011

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vol. 7

142-156

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This study investigated cognitive and emotional effects of syncopation, a feature of musical rhythm that produces expectancy violations in the listener by emphasising weak temporal locations and de-emphasising strong locations in metric structure. Stimuli consisting of pairs of unsyncopated and syncopated musical phrases were rated by 35 musicians for perceived complexity, enjoyment, happiness, arousal, and tension. Overall, syncopated patterns were more enjoyed, and rated as happier, than unsyncopated patterns, while differences in perceived tension were unreliable. Complexity and arousal ratings were asymmetric by serial order, increasing when patterns moved from unsyncopated to syncopated, but not significantly changing when order was reversed. These results suggest that syncopation influences emotional valence (positively), and that while syncopated rhythms are objectively more complex than unsyncopated rhythms, this difference is more salient when complexity increases than when it decreases. It is proposed that composers and improvisers may exploit this asymmetry in perceived complexity by favoring formal structures that progress from rhythmically simple to complex, as can be observed in the initial sections of musical forms such as theme and variations.

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Accéder au sens et en donner à la parole : de l’importance des constituants prosodiques dans l’enseignement de l’oral en FLE

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Dańko M., Billerey B., Hamm D.

Orbis Linguarum

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2018

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issue 50

69–85

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The importance of prosodic constituent in teaching pronunciation of French as a foreign language : access to meaning in speech Learning a foreign language means being in contact with a new environment of sounds compared to that of the mother tongue. The foreign language teacher must help learners to access these sounds both from a perception and a production point of view. The verbo-tonal method of phonetic correction designed in the 1960s-1970s by Professor Petar Guberina (University of Zagreb) provides teachers with tools to correct learners’ pronunciation. The aim of this article is to present some of the advantages of the VTM for phonetic correction, in particular with regard to prosody by showing how important this is for effective communication. This comes in response to difficulties noted by Polish-speaking beginners in French as a foreign language, in particular those concerning the rhythmic unit and the accentuation of rhythmic groups, which we will call « phonetic words ».

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The Impact of Rhythmic Distortions in Speech on Personality Assessment

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Volín J., Poesová K., Skarnitzl R.

Research in Language

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2014

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vol. 12

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issue 3

209-216

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The perennial question as to how perceived otherness in speech projects into listener assessment of one’s personality has been systematically investigated within the field of foreign accentedness, vocal communication of affective states and vocal stereotyping. In the present study, we aimed at exploring non-native listeners’ capacity to respond to differences in natural and modified native speech, particularly whether the manipulation of temporal structure in both stressed and unstressed syllables gives rise to any changes in the perception of the speaker’s personality. The respondents’ intuitive judgements were captured in the domain of the ‘nervousness category’ taken from the five-factor model of personality. Our results indicate an effect of temporal modifications on the listeners’ judgements. Analysis of variance for repeated measures confirmed a highly significant shift of personality evaluations towards the undesired traits (e.g., nervousness, anxiety, querulousness). Several interesting interactions with the semantic contents of the utterances and with the intrinsic qualities of the speakers’ voices were also found. We argue that the effects of accented speech go beyond conscious willingness to accept “otherness” and suggest a method for studying them.

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The Impact of Rhythmic Distortions in Speech on Personality Assessment

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Volín J., Poesová K., Skarnitzl R.

Research in Language

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2014

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vol. 12

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issue 3

209-216

EN

The perennial question as to how perceived otherness in speech projects into listener assessment of one’s personality has been systematically investigated within the field of foreign accentedness, vocal communication of affective states and vocal stereotyping. In the present study, we aimed at exploring non-native listeners’ capacity to respond to differences in natural and modified native speech, particularly whether the manipulation of temporal structure in both stressed and unstressed syllables gives rise to any changes in the perception of the speaker’s personality. The respondents’ intuitive judgements were captured in the domain of the ‘nervousness category’ taken from the five-factor model of personality. Our results indicate an effect of temporal modifications on the listeners’ judgements. Analysis of variance for repeated measures confirmed a highly significant shift of personality evaluations towards the undesired traits (e.g., nervousness, anxiety, querulousness). Several interesting interactions with the semantic contents of the utterances and with the intrinsic qualities of the speakers’ voices were also found. We argue that the effects of accented speech go beyond conscious willingness to accept “otherness” and suggest a method for studying them.

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Repetition and not Parallelism as the Determinant of Poetry in the Hebrew Bible. A Case Study of Biblical Story of Creation (Gen 1)

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Majewski M.

The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II

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2020

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vol. 11

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issue 2

199-218

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The article points to new research on the subject of poetics in the Bible and argues against the thesis that the basic indicator of poetry and poetic texts in the Bible is parallelism.According to the author, repetition is such an indicator. An analysis of the biblical story of creation of the world was used as the case study (Gen 1).

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Co mówi, kiedy nikt nie mówi. Praktyka poetycka Alice Oswald jako przekład

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Heydel M.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2018

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issue 33

309-326

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The paper looks at two book-length poems by Alice Oswald’s: Dart (2002) and Memorial (2011) as translation projects, with an aim to understand both the nature of Oswald’s poetic practice and her concept of what is the meaning and goal of translation in creative work. I claim that translation, in the special sense the poet gives to this term, is at the very core of her work. In my analysis I concentrate on the physical aspect of Oswald’s poetic practice, the role of the body, movement in space, muscular effort, rhythm and memorization of poetry in her projects. I also look at the ways of crossing the divide between the human and non-human, linking language to the voice of the natural world and returning to oral poetry in her work.

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Językowe zabawy w wierszach Małgorzaty Strzałkowskiej

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Kaptur E.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza

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2021

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vol. 28

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issue 2

241-258

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The article presents the linguistic games in selected poems by Małgorzata Strzałkowska. The subject of the research were 300 works from ten volumes that have been published over the last twenty-five years. The text examines these verbal games, which are mainly based on the sound layer of the utterance, i.e. sounds / sounds, onomatopoeia, rhymes, and rhythm. It was found that Strzałkowska’s poems can be ready-made lesson plans that can be used in Polish lessons, in phonetics, in voice emission as well as during speech diagnosis or therapy.

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Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English

Słuchanie jako doświadczenie somatyczne. O wierszach Edwarda Pasewicza

Rhythmical Features of Spoken Chinese: Quantitative and Grammatical Analysis (Methodology)

Rhythm is in the mind of the beholder. Remarks on the nature of linguistic rhythm

Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English

Polymetrie Polákovy Vznešenosti přírody

ВИХОВАННЯ ВІДЧУТТЯ РИТМУ В ДІТЕЙ ДОШКІЛЬНОГО ТА МОЛОДШОГО ШКІЛЬНОГО ВІКУ ЗАСОБАМИ БОТМЕРІВСЬКОЇ ГІМНАСТИКИ

Rytm w perspektywach: lingwistycznej i neurobiologicznej

Eestirootsi keele prosoodia tunnusjooni

Rate Limits of Sensorimotor Synchronization

Mythos Rhythmos Halt, Fluss und Wiederkehr

Text rhythmic system: Its energetic and subliminal potentials

Tekst ciała, ciało tekstu

Cognitive and affective judgements of syncopated musical themes

Accéder au sens et en donner à la parole : de l’importance des constituants prosodiques dans l’enseignement de l’oral en FLE

The Impact of Rhythmic Distortions in Speech on Personality Assessment

The Impact of Rhythmic Distortions in Speech on Personality Assessment

Repetition and not Parallelism as the Determinant of Poetry in the Hebrew Bible. A Case Study of Biblical Story of Creation (Gen 1)

Co mówi, kiedy nikt nie mówi. Praktyka poetycka Alice Oswald jako przekład

Językowe zabawy w wierszach Małgorzaty Strzałkowskiej