Rhythm perception in repetitive sound sequence.

The prevalence of irregularity in rhythm and heart sound in apparently healthy small ruminants

This study was conducted on 384 clinically healthy sheep and goats from farms around Tehran suburb. The animals were divided into two equal groups (according to species) and then assigned into three age groups, two gender groups and female animals into two groups: late pregnant and non-pregnant. Heart sounds were auscultated by two cardiologists and heart rate and probable murmurs were recorded...

Rhythm classes and speech perception

This study indirectly tests whether American, Greek and Korean listeners can classify low-pass filtered utterances of English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean and Spanish into rhythm classes, by examining how they rate each utterance’s rhythm in comparison to a series of non-speech trochees. Such classification was difficult for all groups of listeners and did not support the rhythmic classifica...

Sound, features, and perception

Production–perception entrainment in speech rhythm

The article reports favorable initial results to the hypothesis that rhythm perception can be seen as a listener–speaker entrainment process. The data comes from an experiment in which subjects had to detect a click in test sentences. Each sentence contained one click that was associated to one of the syllables of two consecutive stress groups defined by duration criteria. Reaction time (RT) to...

The perception of rhythm in language.

The orthography of English has a very simple basis for establishing where words in written texts begin and end: both before and also after every word are empty spaces and this demarcation surely helps the reader comprehend. In a spoken text, however, as presented to a hearer, such explicit segmentation cues are rarely to be found; little pauses after every single word might make things clearer,...