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--- abstract: 'Spoken languages have been classified by linguists according to their rhythmic properties, and psycholinguists have relied on this classification to account for infants� capacity to discriminate languages. Although researchers have measured many speech signal properties, they have failed to identify reliable acoustic characteristics for language classes. This paper presents instrumental measurements based on a consonant/vowel segmentation for eight languages. The measurements suggest that intuitive rhythm types reflect specific phonological properties, which in turn are signaled by the acoustic/phonetic properties of speech. The data support the notion of rhythm classes and also allow the simulation of infant language discrimination, consistent with the hypothesis that newborns rely on a coarse segmentation of speech. A hypothesis is proposed regarding the role of rhythm perception in language acquisition.' altloc: - http://www.ehess.fr/centres/lscp/persons/ramus/rhythm98.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Ramus given: Franck honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Nespor given: Marina honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Mehler given: Jacques honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1999 date_type: published datestamp: 2000-07-17 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/08/69 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Mehler given: Jacques honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 869 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/869/3/rhythm98.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'speech rhythm, phonetics, consonant, vowel, language discrimination, phonological bootstrapping, speech segmentation, syllable structure, language acquisition' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:21 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 3 pagerange: 265-292 pubdom: FALSE publication: Cognition publisher: Elsevier Science refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:35:09 subjects: - dev-psy - ling-learn - ling-phono - psy-ling succeeds: 218 suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal type: journalp userid: 431 volume: 73