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... speech is one of the most remarkable . In order to employ language , we do not need to understand how it works , any more than we need to understand the musculature of the leg to be able to walk ; but in order to conduct a meaningful ...
... speech is one of the most remarkable . In order to employ language , we do not need to understand how it works , any more than we need to understand the musculature of the leg to be able to walk ; but in order to conduct a meaningful ...
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... speech , as these are directly relevant to our purpose . All speech is created by the forcing of air under muscular pressure through the orifices of the vocal tract , the differing configurations of which produce different qualities of ...
... speech , as these are directly relevant to our purpose . All speech is created by the forcing of air under muscular pressure through the orifices of the vocal tract , the differing configurations of which produce different qualities of ...
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... speech are not objectively equal ; stress - timing , like every other aspect of speech , depends on the hearer's perception as well as the speaker's physical activity . In listening to the utterances of another speaker of English , I ...
... speech are not objectively equal ; stress - timing , like every other aspect of speech , depends on the hearer's perception as well as the speaker's physical activity . In listening to the utterances of another speaker of English , I ...
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TRADITIONAL APPROACHES | 3 |
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES | 44 |
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acceptable alliteration allow already alternation approach beat beginning chapter classical common complex conventions course create demands demotion deviation discussion distinction double offbeat duple effect emphasis English example expectations experience expressive fact falling final five-beat four-beat function further give given hand iambic implied offbeat important indicate initial instance inversion kind language less linguistic means metre metrical pattern metrical set movement natural nonstresses normal noted observed occur opening optional pairing particular pause pentameter perceived perhaps phrase poem poetry poets position possible preference principle produces promotion pronunciation provides reader reading realisation reflect regular result rhyme rhythm rhythmic rules scansion semantic sense sequence simple single sounds speech stanza stress strong structure style subordination suggest syntactic tension theory third tradition triple trochaic underlying units unstressed syllables usually variation verse