Parallelism as a Factor in Metrical Analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Temperley ◽  
Christopher Bartlette
Keyword(s):  
Current Model ◽  
Metrical Structure ◽  
Metrical Analysis

A model is proposed of the effect of parallelism on meter. It is wellknown that repeated patterns of pitch and rhythm can affect the perception of metrical structure. However, few attempts have been made either to define parallelism precisely or to characterize its effect on metrical analysis. The basic idea of the current model is that a repeated melodic pattern favors a metrical structure in which beats are placed at parallel points in each occurrence of the pattern. By this view, parallelism affects the period of the metrical structure (the distance between beats) rather than the phase (exactly where the beats occur). This model is implemented and incorporated into the metrical program of D. Temperley and D. Sleator (1999). Several examples of the model's output are presented; we examine problems with the model and discuss possible solutions.

Metrical Analysis of the Speech of Children With Suspected Developmental Apraxia of Speech

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 1444-1460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley L. Velleman ◽  
Lawrence D. Shriberg
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Diagnostic Marker ◽  
Lexical Stress ◽  
Apraxia Of Speech ◽  
Speech Delay ◽  
Acoustic Measures ◽  
Metrical Phonology ◽  
Developmental Apraxia ◽  
Metrical Analysis ◽  
Better Than

Previous studies have shown that metrical analysis accounts for syllable omissions in young normally developing children better than prior perspectives. This approach has not yet been applied to children with disorders. Inappropriate sentential stress has been proposed as a diagnostic marker for a subgroup of children with suspected developmental apraxia of speech (SD-DAS), suggesting that the application of metrical perspectives to this population may be appropriate. This report extends the goal of identifying diagnostic markers for SD-DAS using analytic procedures from metrical phonology. The lexical metrical patterns of children with SD-DAS were compared to those of a group of children with speech delay (SD) to verify the applicability of metrical constructs to children with disorders while at the same time seeking lexical stress characteristics that might be useful for differential diagnosis. The lexical stress errors of children in both the SD and SD-DAS disorder groups were found to conform to patterns identified in metrical studies of younger normally developing children, confirming the applicability of this approach to children with disorders. Lexical metrical patterns did not differentiate the groups from each other. However, syllable omissions persisted to much later ages in the SD-DAS subjects, especially those children previously identified as having inappropriate phrasal stress. Further metrical studies of the speech of children with suspected SD-DAS are needed, both at the lexical and the sentential level, using both perceptual and acoustic measures.

Towards a systematic corpus analysis of Arabic poetry

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Georges Bohas ◽  
Djamel Eddine Kouloughli
Keyword(s):  
Computer Program ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Automatic Recognition ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Arabic Script ◽  
Metrical Analysis

Recent work on Arabic metrics aims at developing a coherent research programme which relies on the systematic analysis of electronic corpora. The computer program XALIYL performs, for any line of ancient Arabic poetry, an automatic recognition of the metre used. This operation takes place whatever the length of the verses, and regardless of whether they are encoded in ordinary Arabic script (with the addition of vowels) or by means of the TRS system, which relates functionally to ordinary Arabic script. XALIYL produces a textual database that contains the syllabic decomposition for each hemistich of each line, as well as its metrical analysis. It can cope not only with the general problems linked to re-syllabification and sandhi, but also with problems of syllabification specific to Arabic metrics. Errors due to the metrical scanning or to the editing of poems can be located automatically. Moreover, by allowing a computerised search for formulae, XALIYL provides significant information on the “formulaic systems” of ancient Arabic poetry.

English Aspiration and Flapping Revisited

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Picard
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Additional Problem ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Metrical Analysis ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Phonological Rules

In Kahn (1976), one finds a syllable-based reanalysis of certain well-known phonological rules of English. Prominent among these are aspiration and flapping. Given that the belated recognition of the syllable by generative phonologists has generally yielded very interesting and positive results, this reinterpretation of the facts must be seen as a welcome development in that respect.On the other hand, however, Kahn’s decision to base his syllable-oriented generalizations on the concept of ambisyllabicity must be seriously questioned since the phonological evidence for such a phenomenon is so tenuous, and also because this concept is virtually unfalsifiable as it is not known to have any physical-acoustic or articulatory-correlates whatsoever.Also, over and above Kahn’s recourse to such an unsubstantiated mechanism, there is the additional problem that the two rules he proposes simply do not correctly account for all the data. A later attempt by Kiparsky (1979) to replace Kahn’s ambisyllabic treatment of these two rules by a metrical analysis involving the foot runs into exactly the same kind of trouble.

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