Rhythm on your lips

The Iambic-Trochaic Law (ITL) accounts for speech rhythm, grouping of sounds as either Iambs – if alternating in duration – or Trochees – if alternating in pitch and/or intensity. The two different rhythms signal word order, one of the basic syntactic properties of language. We investigated the exte...

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Main Authors: Marcela Pena, Alan Langus, Cesar Gutierrez, Daniela Huepe, Marina Nespor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01708/full