摘要
Two groups of parallelism in Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream are selected to analyze the rhythmic features in terms of prominence and duration. By applying Praat to label the sentences, some findings are as follows: In parallel sentences,the duration of each parallel structure is more or less equal due to the same number of prominence, although sentence length is different; the mean duration of syllables in long sentences is shorter as a result of vowel truncation.
Two groups of parallelism in Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream are selected to analyze the rhythmic features in terms of prominence and duration. By applying Praat to label the sentences, some findings are as follows: In parallel sentences,the duration of each parallel structure is more or less equal due to the same number of prominence, although sentence length is different; the mean duration of syllables in long sentences is shorter as a result of vowel truncation.
出处
《海外英语》
2016年第3期224-225,共2页
Overseas English
基金
2014年软科学研究计划项目,项目名称:微媒体时代的英语教材数字化趋势研究(编号:142400411419)
