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 fo...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.展开更多
This paper is a detailed introduction to the history of Kundulun District as a speech community and the consecutive reinvestigations of nasal rhythm variation study conducted there for 29 years.The definition of varia...This paper is a detailed introduction to the history of Kundulun District as a speech community and the consecutive reinvestigations of nasal rhythm variation study conducted there for 29 years.The definition of variation study is also illustrated in this paper with concrete examples.展开更多
文摘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.
文摘This paper is a detailed introduction to the history of Kundulun District as a speech community and the consecutive reinvestigations of nasal rhythm variation study conducted there for 29 years.The definition of variation study is also illustrated in this paper with concrete examples.