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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Phonetics
  • Speech Science

Background:

  • Speech rhythm perception involves interdependent tonal (f0) and durational cues.
  • The weighting of these cues varies based on listeners' native language.
  • Previous research used native speakers of Swiss German, Swiss French, and Metropolitan French.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a perceptually informed rhythm metric by integrating listener weighting into production data.
  • To quantify speech rhythm in three languages using a language-specific Pairwise Variability Index (PVI).
  • To investigate cross-linguistic differences in speech rhythm production.

Main Methods:

  • Calculated the relative weighting of duration and f0 in listeners' rhythmicality judgments.
  • Incorporated language-specific weighting values into combined durational-tonal PVIs.
  • Quantified rhythm in Swiss German, Swiss French, and Metropolitan French using the new metric.

Main Results:

  • Classic durational PVIs showed distinct rhythm patterns for Swiss German and French.
  • Multidimensional, language-specifically weighted PVIs indicated greater similarity between the languages.
  • The perceptually informed PVI revealed less cross-linguistic divergence in rhythm production.

Conclusions:

  • Speech rhythm quantification should account for acoustic multidimensionality and language-specific perception.
  • Perceptually informed rhythm metrics may show less cross-linguistic divergence than traditional metrics.
  • Future rhythm metrics should link speech rhythm perception with production.