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Definition of Speech rhythm
1. Noun. The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements. "The rhythm of Frost's poetry"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speech Rhythm
Literary usage of Speech rhythm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rudiments of Criticism by Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn (1916)
"is a well-known example : if we mark the verse-rhythm it is mere sing-song; but
if we give it speech-rhythm A Mister Wilkinson, a clergyman, all suggestion ..."
2. Studies from the Yale Psychological Laboratory by Yale University Psychological Laboratory, Edward Wheeler Scripture (1899)
"Bearing on some phases of speech rhythm. — (a) The elements of rhythm. —Speech
rhythm has been defined as a "law of succession" ( GUEST); a " principle of ..."
3. A New Study of English Poetry by Henry John Newbolt (1919)
"Poetic rhythm is, in short, neither strict * / mechanical rhythm nor free
speech-rhythm: it is J speech limited by metric law, or Prosody. ..."
4. Studies from the Yale Psychological Laboratory by Yale University Psychological Laboratory, Edward Wheeler Scripture (1899)
"Bearing on some phase s of speech rhythm.—(a) The elements of rhythm. — Speech
rhythm has been defined as a "law of succession" (GUEST); a "principleof ..."
5. Studies from the Yale Psychological Laboratory by Yale University Psychological Laboratory (1900)
"Hearing on some phases of speech rhythm.—(a) The elements of rhythm. — Speech
rhythm has been defined as a "law of succession" (GUEST); a " principle of ..."
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