Listeners feel the beat: Entrainment to English and French speech rhythms.
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| year | 2011 |
| current status | published |
| journal | Psychonomic Bulletin and Review |
| volume | 18 |
| pages | 1035-1041 |
| reference | Lidji, P., Palmer, C., Peretz, I. & Morningstar, M. (2011) Listeners feel the beat: Entrainment to English and French speech rhythms. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review , vol. 18, pp. 1035-1041 |
Abstract
Can listeners entrain to speech rhythms? Monolingual speakers of English and French and balanced English–French bilinguals tapped along with the beat they perceived in sentences spoken in a stress-timed language, English, and a syllable-timed language, French. All groups of participants tapped more regularly to English than to French utterances. Tapping performance was also influenced by the participants’ native language: English-speaking participants and bilinguals tapped more regularly and at higher metrical levels than did French-speaking participants, suggesting that long-term linguistic experience with a stress-timed language can differentiate speakers’ entrainment to speech rhythm.
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