Approaches to the rhythmic aspects of speech, especially English in contrast to other languages, and its relationship to other kinds of rhythmic behavior. We will survey the treatment of speech rhythm in traditional phonetics and phonology (eg, Pike, D. Jones, Abercrombie, Bolinger), ethnomusicology (eg, G. Liszt), generative metrical phonology (eg, M. Liberman, A. Prince, Hayes). Also the development of prosodic structure in children of various cultures (K. Demuth, Gerken, Kehoe). In addition, we will make comparisons to some other oscillation-like behaviors (M. Jones, Cutler, Large, McAuley, Kelso, Turvey). Students will present specific papers to the seminar.

This seminar should be accessible to cognitive science students in any department who have had at least some exposure to phonetics or phonology.