Ratings of the prosodic features in speech are restricted to judgments of the speakers ability to blend sounds and words together, to stress syllables and words, and to modify pitch appropriately ...

Do you hear a regular beat da-DUM, da-DUM? This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name: it’s called iambic. Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to strengthen ...

What’s the difference between a sentence that sinks and a sentence that soars? More often than not, the secret is beat. As readers and listeners, we crave the natural rise and fall of sound. We love ...

The relationship between song sharing among male songbirds and geographic distance between their territories is a function of juvenile dispersal distance and length of the song learning period. I ...