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NOTWITHSTANDING the steady advance of knowledge concerning the physics of speech, with regard to certain of the most fundamental speech-phenomena a lush upgrowth of theory has yielded a very small crop of ascertained facts. Especially is this true concerning speech-rhythm. The reasons are several. Too frequently investigators have failed to formulate their problem with precision and have obscured it with terms of undetermined connotation, such as ‘stress,’ ‘accent,’ ‘quantity,’ even the word ‘measurement’ being very loosely used; most serious, however, has been their failure to appreciate or apply the methods evolved by other sciences for solving kindred problems.
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JEAFFRESON, J. Stress and Rhythm in Speech. Nature 118, 928–930 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118928a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118928a0