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LINGUISTIC RHYTHM 1
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LINGUISTIC RHYTHM 1 YU / LAMONT APRIL 05, 2018 2 KEEPING THE BEAT - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
LINGUISTIC RHYTHM 1 YU / LAMONT APRIL 05, 2018 2 KEEPING THE BEAT - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 LINGUISTIC RHYTHM 1 YU / LAMONT APRIL 05, 2018 2 KEEPING THE BEAT IN LANGUAGE LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2 3 METRICAL THEORY AND METRICS Bruce Hayes Russ Schuh
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
METRICAL THEORY AND METRICS
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Bruce Hayes
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/ http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/RememberingRuss/Russ Schuh
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB
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The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Lord Byron
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zpj3cwx/revision
What defines the “beat” in this poem?
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB
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The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Lord Byron
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zpj3cwx/revision
What defines the “beat” in this poem?
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
LIMERICK BY LAMONT
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What defines the “beat” in this poem?
http://specgram.com/CLXXIII.4/04.linguimericks21.html
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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What defines the “beat” in this poem?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
ANAPESTIC TETRAMETER
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
ANAPESTIC TETRAMETER
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https://youtu.be/jTrs2-U5NeM
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
HAUSA SPEECH SOUNDS
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
HAUSA
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What defines the “beat” in this poem?
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
HAUSA SONGS: JAWABIN AURE
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http://aflang.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/ms_1995_DM_aure.pdf
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
HAUSA SONGS: AUREN DOLE
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http://aflang.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/ms_1995_DM_aure.pdf
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
METER IN HAUSA
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What defines the “beat” in this poem?
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
VOWEL LENGTH IN HAUSA
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http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/251HayesSchuhMetrics/handouts/02_Hausa_phonology.pdf
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
COMPARING ENGLISH AND HAUSA
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▸ How many syllables are in a line in the English meter? ▸ How many syllables are in a line in the Hausa meter?
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/251HayesSchuhMetrics/Papers/ Kano_2014_Chadic_quantitative_meters.pdf
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
METER IN HAUSA
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What defines the “beat” in this poem?
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
PHRASE-FINAL VOWEL LENGTH IN HAUSA
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http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/251HayesSchuhMetrics/handouts/02_Hausa_phonology.pdf
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
PHONOLOGICAL GENERALIZATIONS
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▸ Stress ▸ “Quantity”/“weight”: the syllable, the mora ▸ Prosodic position Poetry can reveal abstract generalizations about sound patterns that speakers have in their heads!
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RHYTHM CLASSES
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
TWO RHYTHM CLASSES
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▸ Stress-timed: equal durations between stresses ▸ e.g. English, German, Dutch ▸ “Morse code” rhythm ▸ Syllable-timed: syllables are of equal duration ▸ e.g. French, Spanish, Catalan ▸ “Machine gun” rhythm
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
MORSE CODE VS. MACHINE GUN
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http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Morse/Archive/5%20WPM/170104_05WPM.mp3 http://soundbible.com/1201-Automatic-Machine-Gun-3x.html
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LINGUIST 197M, SPRING 2018. CLASS 10.2
RAMUS PERCEPTION EXPERIMENTS AUDIO
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http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/resynth/ecoute.htm
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EXAM 2 REVIEW
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