Abstract
Four studies addressed the relation between linguistic prosody and musical meter in song. Analyses of song compositions indicated that the Compound Word and Nuclear Stress rules of English coincided with musical rules of metrical accent. Vocalists were asked to perform songs in which compound words and nuclear stress phrases were aligned or misaligned with the musical meter. Syllables aligned with either linguistic or musical accent were sung with greater duration than unaccented syllables. Additional analyses of adjective-noun phrases in song compositions showed musical accent aligned more often with nouns in clause-initial phrases and with adjectives in determiner-initial phrases, consistent with phonological principles of cliticization. Singers' performances showed larger durations for nouns than adjectives in clause-initial than in determiner-initial phrases. Prosodic structure and musical meter had independent effects on sung durations, suggesting that they contribute separately to song performance but with similar organizational principles.
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