title: Metrical structure and production of English rhythm.
abstract: This paper examines kinematic patterns of jaw opening and associated F1 values of 4 American English speakers in productions of the sentence 'I saw five bright highlights in the sky'. Results show strong-weak jaw opening alternations during the production of the utterance, and significant correlation of F1 with jaw opening for 3 of the 4 speakers. The observed jaw opening patterns correspond to metrically generated syllable stress levels for productions of the sentence by these 4 speakers.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Erickson
authors.forename: Atsuo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suemitsu
authors.forename: Yoshiho
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shibuya
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tiede
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007568:Jaw / Q000502:physiology*; D007802:Language; D010700:Phonetics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013062:Speech Articulation Tests; D013068:Speech Production Measurement