Tag: rhythm

  • The Stylistic Use of Prosodic Rhythm in African American English (2013)

    The Stylistic Use of Prosodic Rhythm in African American English (2013)

    Nielsen, R. 2013. The Stylistic Use of Prosodic Rhythm in African American English. RASK 37: 301-334. This article looks into prosodic variation in an individual speaker of African American English (AAE). Building off of prior studies that included the Pairwise Variability Index (PVI), which is a measure of whether a language variety is stress-timed or […]