Auditory analysis of the gender-based agent in phrasal rhythm during extemporaneous reading aloud (the paradigmatic aspect)

Bankov Andrei Sergeevich

The article describes the role of the gender factor in contemporary American prosody. The attention is focused on the auditory analysis of rhythm in extemporaneous reading aloud. Typical peculiarities of the extemporaneous reading “rhythmic repertoires” (the paradigmatic aspect) of each of the two gender groups are found and statistically relevant similarities and differences are defined.

Keywords:prosody, rhythm, rhythmic group, gender, extemporaneous reading, paradigm.