Dafydd Gibbons
Biographic Data
| ID | 637005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dafydd Gibbons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dafydd |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbons |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBONS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bielefeld University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9825-5516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rhythm pattern discovery in Niger-Congo story-telling
Description of interactive oral story-telling in West African Niger-Congo languages, “orature” in contrast to “literature”, has traditionally been firmly in the domain of anthropological linguistics. The discourse structures of narrator-responder interaction and call-response chanted interludes and their prosody are an open challenge to discourse analysts, linguists and phoneticians. Two orature examples from related Niger-Congo languages, record…
The rhythms of rhythm
The low frequency (LF) spectral analysis or ‘rhythm spectrum’ approach to the quantitative analysis and comparison of speech rhythms is extended beyond syllable or word rhythms to ‘rhetorical rhythms’ in read-aloud narratives, in a selection of exploratory scenarios, with the aim of developing a unified theory of speech rhythms. Current methodologies in the field are first discussed, then the choice of data is motivated and the modulation-theoret…
InMemoriamWiktorJassem(1922-2016)
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Multilinear Grammar: Ranks and Interpretations
Multilinear Grammar provides a framework for integrating the many different syntagmatic structures of language into a coherent semiotically based Rank Interpretation Architecture, with default linear grammars at each rank. The architecture defines a Sui Generis Condition on ranks, from discourse through utterance and phrasal structures to the word, with its sub-ranks of morphology and phonology. Each rank has unique structures and its own semanti…
Ega
Ega is an endangered language spoken in the south-central region of Côte d'Ivoire, in Divo Department. The precise number of speakers is not known at present; the 14th Ethnologue (Grimes 2000) reports 291 to 3,000, and notes that 'the ethnic group is growing, but they are shifting to the Dida language because of intermarriage and other influences'. Our own preliminary and impressionistic work suggests the number of Ega speakers to be closer to th…
Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems: Resources, Terminology and Product Evaluation
Gerhard Leitner, Gesprächsanalyse und Rundfunkkommunikation [Discourse analysis and broadcast radio communication]. Hildesheim: Olms, 1983. Pp. 223
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Intonation, Accent and Rhythm: Studies in Discourse Phonology
Context and variation in two‐way radio discourse
International amateur radio talk (IART) is describéd as a ‘clear case’ of the significance of the channel as a restrictive factor in discourse, and sample texts of IART are analyzed. The situation of IART and its subvarieties and neighboring varieties within a formal and functional ‘variety space’ is examined within a proposed theory of the use of speech. Language use is regarded as defined by a hierarchically organized set of constitutive factor…
Idiomaticity and functional variation: A case study of international amateur radio talk
The linguistic domain of idiomaticity poses many problems for the study of language form, use, and variation. With selected aspects of idiomaticity as a starting point, I will attempt in this paper to develop a description of the use of idioms as a segment of a more general theory of language use. Evidence for this approach is drawn from international amateur radio talk (IART) in English
Re-defining English accent and stress
In a well-known introductory text on linguistics, Langacker maintained (1968: 161), expressing a widely held view:Linguists do not fully understand just what constitutes stress. The best we can say is that stressed vowels are apparently different from unstressed ones in that they are of greater length, higher pitch and greater articulatory force
Observations on apico-labials, perception and markedness
The aim of this paper is to show how the investigation of a borderline and apparently minor area of phonetics may help to shed light on certain indistinct areas in phonological theory
Idiomaticity and functional variation: A case study of international amateur radio talk
The linguistic domain of idiomaticity poses many problems for the study of language form, use, and variation. With selected aspects of idiomaticity as a starting point, I will attempt in this paper to develop a description of the use of idioms as a segment of a more general theory of language use. Evidence for this approach is drawn from international amateur radio talk (IART) in English
InMemoriamWiktorJassem(1922-2016)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Multilinear Grammar: Ranks and Interpretations
Multilinear Grammar provides a framework for integrating the many different syntagmatic structures of language into a coherent semiotically based Rank Interpretation Architecture, with default linear grammars at each rank. The architecture defines a Sui Generis Condition on ranks, from discourse through utterance and phrasal structures to the word, with its sub-ranks of morphology and phonology. Each rank has unique structures and its own semanti…
Ega
Ega is an endangered language spoken in the south-central region of Côte d'Ivoire, in Divo Department. The precise number of speakers is not known at present; the 14th Ethnologue (Grimes 2000) reports 291 to 3,000, and notes that 'the ethnic group is growing, but they are shifting to the Dida language because of intermarriage and other influences'. Our own preliminary and impressionistic work suggests the number of Ega speakers to be closer to th…
Context and variation in two‐way radio discourse
International amateur radio talk (IART) is describéd as a ‘clear case’ of the significance of the channel as a restrictive factor in discourse, and sample texts of IART are analyzed. The situation of IART and its subvarieties and neighboring varieties within a formal and functional ‘variety space’ is examined within a proposed theory of the use of speech. Language use is regarded as defined by a hierarchically organized set of constitutive factor…
Observations on apico-labials, perception and markedness
The aim of this paper is to show how the investigation of a borderline and apparently minor area of phonetics may help to shed light on certain indistinct areas in phonological theory
Observations on apico-labials, perception and markedness
The aim of this paper is to show how the investigation of a borderline and apparently minor area of phonetics may help to shed light on certain indistinct areas in phonological theory
Re-defining English accent and stress
In a well-known introductory text on linguistics, Langacker maintained (1968: 161), expressing a widely held view:Linguists do not fully understand just what constitutes stress. The best we can say is that stressed vowels are apparently different from unstressed ones in that they are of greater length, higher pitch and greater articulatory force
Idiomaticity and functional variation: A case study of international amateur radio talk
The linguistic domain of idiomaticity poses many problems for the study of language form, use, and variation. With selected aspects of idiomaticity as a starting point, I will attempt in this paper to develop a description of the use of idioms as a segment of a more general theory of language use. Evidence for this approach is drawn from international amateur radio talk (IART) in English
Context and variation in two‐way radio discourse
International amateur radio talk (IART) is describéd as a ‘clear case’ of the significance of the channel as a restrictive factor in discourse, and sample texts of IART are analyzed. The situation of IART and its subvarieties and neighboring varieties within a formal and functional ‘variety space’ is examined within a proposed theory of the use of speech. Language use is regarded as defined by a hierarchically organized set of constitutive factor…
Intonation, Accent and Rhythm: Studies in Discourse Phonology
Gerhard Leitner, Gesprächsanalyse und Rundfunkkommunikation [Discourse analysis and broadcast radio communication]. Hildesheim: Olms, 1983. Pp. 223
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems: Resources, Terminology and Product Evaluation
Ega
Ega is an endangered language spoken in the south-central region of Côte d'Ivoire, in Divo Department. The precise number of speakers is not known at present; the 14th Ethnologue (Grimes 2000) reports 291 to 3,000, and notes that 'the ethnic group is growing, but they are shifting to the Dida language because of intermarriage and other influences'. Our own preliminary and impressionistic work suggests the number of Ega speakers to be closer to th…
Multilinear Grammar: Ranks and Interpretations
Multilinear Grammar provides a framework for integrating the many different syntagmatic structures of language into a coherent semiotically based Rank Interpretation Architecture, with default linear grammars at each rank. The architecture defines a Sui Generis Condition on ranks, from discourse through utterance and phrasal structures to the word, with its sub-ranks of morphology and phonology. Each rank has unique structures and its own semanti…
InMemoriamWiktorJassem(1922-2016)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The rhythms of rhythm
The low frequency (LF) spectral analysis or ‘rhythm spectrum’ approach to the quantitative analysis and comparison of speech rhythms is extended beyond syllable or word rhythms to ‘rhetorical rhythms’ in read-aloud narratives, in a selection of exploratory scenarios, with the aim of developing a unified theory of speech rhythms. Current methodologies in the field are first discussed, then the choice of data is motivated and the modulation-theoret…
Rhythm pattern discovery in Niger-Congo story-telling
Description of interactive oral story-telling in West African Niger-Congo languages, “orature” in contrast to “literature”, has traditionally been firmly in the domain of anthropological linguistics. The discourse structures of narrator-responder interaction and call-response chanted interludes and their prosody are an open challenge to discourse analysts, linguists and phoneticians. Two orature examples from related Niger-Congo languages, record…
Linguistics (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Prosody (3 works) · Rhythm (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)