Contents
Section 1The Physiology of Rhythm
1Body-Grounded Speech Rhythm: Ubiquitous Interactions between Speech, Breathing, and Limb Movements
2Jaw-Opening Patterns and Their Correspondence with Syllable Stress Patterns
3Region-Specific Endogenous Brain Rhythms and Their Role for Speech and Language
5Evaluating Neural Tracking of Rhythmic Information in Speech: Some Caveats and Challenges
7A Road to a Better Understanding of Rhythms in Speech Using a Comparative Approach
Section 3Rhythm in Prosody and at the Prosody–Syntax Interface
15Intonation Units: Prosodic Regularity in Spontaneous Speech as a Window onto Cognitive Dynamics
16Phrasal Rhythmicity and the Sources of Temporal Intermittency in Speech
17Prosody versus Syntax, or Prosody and Syntax? Evaluating Accounts of Delta-Band Tracking
18Cognitive and Neural Constraints on Timing and Rhythm in Language
19Shaping Rhythm to Keep Balance: The Structural Implications of Temporal Modulation
Section 4Diversity of Rhythm from Oral Speech to Music
24Time to Pop the Cork? The Cork Exercise and Its Effects on Rhythm and Melody in a Public Speaker’s Presentation Task
25Rhythmic Stimulation of Linguistic Performance: A Common Structure?
28Shared Mechanisms for the Processing of Rhythm in Music and Speech
29Interaction Phonology: Rhythmic Coordination as Scaffold for Communicative Alignment
Section 5Rhythm across Languages
31The Role of Prosodic Durational Variation in the Temporal Coordination of Utterances
32Individual and Language Differences in Rhythm Grouping Preferences: The Iambic–Trochaic Law Revisited
33Cross-Linguistic Consistency of Speech Rhythms and Pending Questions: Evidence from Bilingual and Second-Language Speakers
Section 6Rhythm in Language Acquisition
35Rhythm and Language Acquisition: A Temporal Sampling Perspective
36Neural and Behavioural Rhythmic Tracking during Language Acquisition: Findings, Methods, and Outstanding Issues
37Maturational Constraints on Tracking of Temporal Attention in Infant Language Acquisition
38Rhythmic Structure in Cross-Modal Infant-Directed Communication
39Prosody as an Entry Point into Language Structure in Early Language Acquisition
40Acquisition of Similar versus Different Speech Rhythmic Class