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What is speech rhythm? A commentary on Arvaniti and Rodriquez, Krivokapić, and Goswami and Leong

What is speech rhythm? A commentary on Arvaniti and Rodriquez, Krivokapić, and Goswami and Leong DOI 10.1515/lp-2013-0005 Laboratory Phonology 2013; 4(1): 93­118 Alice Turk and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel What is speech rhythm? A commentary on Arvaniti and Rodriquez, Krivokapi, and Goswami and Leong Alice Turk: The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. E-mail: turk@ling.ed.ac.uk Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel: Speech Communication Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1Introduction Speech rhythm has been the focus of a great deal of research over the past 80 years. The papers in this section provide a good snapshot of the current state of this research, because they illustrate the range of topics that the term `rhythm' covers, as well as the range of its possible definitions. One of the issues that these papers highlight for us is the fact that the term `rhythm' can mean very different things to different people. We believe that the use of this term in reference to speech, if not further qualified, can lead to misunderstandings about what claims are being made about the fundamental nature of speech. These misunderstandings are potentially serious because the term `rhythm' carries with it implicit assumptions about the way speech works, and about how (if at all) it involves periodicity. As a result, readers who come to a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Laboratory Phonology de Gruyter

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DOI 10.1515/lp-2013-0005 Laboratory Phonology 2013; 4(1): 93­118 Alice Turk and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel What is speech rhythm? A commentary on Arvaniti and Rodriquez, Krivokapi, and Goswami and Leong Alice Turk: The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. E-mail: turk@ling.ed.ac.uk Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel: Speech Communication Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1Introduction Speech rhythm has been the focus of a great deal of research over the past 80 years. The papers in this section provide a good snapshot of the current state of this research, because they illustrate the range of topics that the term `rhythm' covers, as well as the range of its possible definitions. One of the issues that these papers highlight for us is the fact that the term `rhythm' can mean very different things to different people. We believe that the use of this term in reference to speech, if not further qualified, can lead to misunderstandings about what claims are being made about the fundamental nature of speech. These misunderstandings are potentially serious because the term `rhythm' carries with it implicit assumptions about the way speech works, and about how (if at all) it involves periodicity. As a result, readers who come to a

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