{"id":11908,"date":"2020-02-06T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=11908"},"modified":"2020-02-06T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:01:57","slug":"tamara-rathcke-kobe-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/02\/06\/tamara-rathcke-kobe-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamara Rathcke gives talk at Kobe University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 23-24 January, Dr Tamara Rathcke, Senior Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/english-language-linguistics\">Department of English Language and Linguistics<\/a>, gave a talk and an undergraduate seminar at Kobe University, Japan. This was part of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsps.go.jp\/english\/index.html\">Japan Society for the Promotion of Science<\/a> fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, Tamara discussed her recent research that aims to understand what makes speech sound rhythmic by using a movement-based paradigm. She also presented an experiment with\u00a0 twenty-nine English-speaking participants who tapped in synchrony with, and after listening to, sentences of different length, and present some preliminary observations from cross-linguistic experiments with English, French and Japanese listeners who synchronised with their native and non-native languages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will discuss if, and what, we can learn about language rhythm from movement-based paradigms,&#8221; Tamara states, &#8220;For decades, the concept of rhythm in language has been controversially debated (Roach 1982, Cummins 2012). There is a great deal of disagreement on the unit, the definition, the study method and the sheer existence of rhythm in language (cf. Nolan &amp; Jeon 2014). However, it has also been noted that previous studies did not involve the core feature of rhythm \u2013 its ability to entrain movement (Cummins 2009, 2012).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My major is linguistics, but it was my first time to take a class about linguistics in English,&#8221; one of the attendees said, &#8220;It was very interesting to learn about things in English which I had learned in Japanese. Thank you so much for coming to Kobe University and giving us an opportunity to take your class today!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 23-24 January, Dr Tamara Rathcke, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, gave a talk and an undergraduate seminar at Kobe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/02\/06\/tamara-rathcke-kobe-university\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11908"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions\/12027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}