Timing relationship between spoken and sung utterances in...
Nakata, Hitomi
This study explores a possible timing relationship between speech units in Japanese and their mapping onto musical units, in which an attempt is made to examine rhythmic patterning in language and its interaction with musical rhythm. Three questions are set out, what is the Japanese speech unit to determine spoken rhythm, is the unit altered in musical constraint, has the pattern changed over time? Various methods were employed to examine the ...