cad a22 4500 551468467 20201204071954.0 cr unu---uuuuu 181215e20181113xx s 000 0 eng 10.5167/uzh-159521 doi 10.1558/ijsll.37110 doi (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:159521 000 ddc 410 ddc Between-speaker rhythmic variability is not dependent on language rhythm, as evidence from Persian reveals [Elektronische Daten] [Homa Asadi, Mandana Nourbakhsh, Lei He, Elisa Pellegrino, Volker Dellwo] openAccess eu-repo Acoustic measures of speech rhythm based on the durational characteristics of consonantal and vocalic intervals (henceforth C- or V-intervals) as well as syllabic intensity reveal between-speaker variability. The evidence obtained so far is based on speakers of stressed-timed languages, which are assumed to have complex consonant clusters and a higher degree of vowel reduction. Speakers of stressed-timed languages might operate their articulatory organs in different ways due to the syllable complexity and vowel reduction. Complex consonant clusters are released differently, and vowel reduction tends to be produced more or less strongly depending on speakers. When a language lacks such features, it is possible that rhythmic variation between its speakers decreases. In the present study, we aimed at exploring between- and within-speaker rhythmic variability in Persian, an Indo-European language categorised as syllable-timed. Acoustic correlates of speech rhythm (%V, ΔV[ln], ΔC[ln], n-PVI-V) and articulation rate were obtained from two Persian corpora with different sources of within-speaker variability. In the first corpus, the source of within-speaker variability mainly comes from non-contemporaneous recording sessions, and in the second corpus, from different speech rates. Results revealed that there were significant differences between speakers in all investigated speech rhythm measures in Persian and %V best discriminated between speakers. This reveals that the lack of typical stress-time features does not affect between-speaker variability in speech rhythm. Institute of Computational Linguistics zora Zurich Center for Linguistics zora Language and Space zora Linguistics and Language, Law zora Asadi Homa joint author Nourbakhsh Mandana joint author He Lei joint author Pellegrino Elisa joint author Dellwo Volker joint author International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 25(2):151-174 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/159521/1/37110-110220-1-PB.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 1 Journal Article PeerReviewed zora ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article openAccess ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/159521/1/37110-110220-1-PB.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 700 1- Asadi Homa joint author ZORA 700 1- Nourbakhsh Mandana joint author ZORA 700 1- He Lei joint author ZORA 700 1- Pellegrino Elisa joint author ZORA 700 1- Dellwo Volker joint author ZORA 773 0- International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 25(2):151-174