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The Perceptual Center and Rhythm Categories

Author(s) -

Charles E. Hoequist

Publication year - 1983

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383098302600404

Subject(s) - syllable , center (category theory) , rhythm , perception , phenomenon , linguistics , stress (linguistics) , psychology , acoustics , physics , philosophy , chemistry , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , crystallography

The perceptual center (P-center) is a phenomenon which has been used to account for the failure of acoustic-waveform measurements to verify impressionistic claims about language rhythms. To date, the existence of the P-center has only been tested for English. An experiment is described in which the P-center phenomenon is tested in a stress-timed language (English), a syllable-timed language (Spanish) and a mora-timed language (Japanese). The effect is found in all three languages, suggesting that the P-center is a language universal.

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