Listeners feel the beat: Entrainment to English and French speech rhythms |
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Authors: | Pascale Lidji Caroline Palmer Isabelle Peretz Michele Morningstar |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Psychology,McGill University,Montreal,Canada;2.International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS),Université de Montréal,Quebec,Canada;3.UNESCOG, Department of Psychology,Université Libre de Bruxelles,Brussels,Belgium |
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Abstract: | Can listeners entrain to speech rhythms? Monolingual speakers of English and French and balanced English–French bilinguals tapped along with the beat they perceived in sentences spoken in a stress-timed language, English, and a syllable-timed language, French. All groups of participants tapped more regularly to English than to French utterances. Tapping performance was also influenced by the participants’ native language: English-speaking participants and bilinguals tapped more regularly and at higher metrical levels than did French-speaking participants, suggesting that long-term linguistic experience with a stress-timed language can differentiate speakers’ entrainment to speech rhythm. |
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