Music & Language Studies

The community here at Music & Language Studies is growing. As you see below, the first “guest” posting has appeared with Bruce Richman’s discussion of his approach to using songs in teaching English speech intonation and rhythm.

I would like to invite others who are interested to email me regarding the possibility of contributing to this website. All subscribers are able to post comments. If you would like to upload files, add links, or write posts, please let me know.

Best to all,

Jonathan Pearl
jonathan @ musiclanguage.net

Bruce Richman writes:

       I’m almost finished writing a textbook book called Songs for Speaking in which I use song lyrics from American folk songs and show tunes and also use rhythmical poetry to help students learn, analyze, and memorize English rhythm, stress, and intonation patterns. Songs and poetry are so easy to memorize that it makes memorizing the prosodic patterns of English relatively easy. Once students memorize these patterns it’s easy to help them extend their use to conversational speech.
     I’m uploading several chapters from my book and I’d like people to look them over and make comments.  I’d really appreciate your feedback. 

• Introduction to Songs for Speaking
• How to Use Book in the Classroom
• Chapter 1 Breath Groups
• Chapter 2 Rhythm
• Chapter 3 Stress

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Incursões em torno do Ritmo da Fala

by Plínio A. Barbosa (plinio@iel.unicamp.br)

Campinas, Brazil: Pontes Editores.
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The book Incursões deals with all components (including their coupling relations) of a dynamical model of speech rhythm, which is named throughout the book the reference model for practical reasons. The computational-mathematical implementation of the model is couched on dynamical systems theory, and presupposes that the rhythmic system underlying speech communication has three levels of coupling at three distinct temporal scales. Read the rest of this entry »