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Chen Gafni and Reuven Tsur





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Voice Quality in Poetry Reading and Listener Response,
Scientific Study of Literature






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Sound Files For Introduction



Listen to the line

merengj a messze multba visszaríván
muse, weeping and yearning back to the distant past

Listen to the lines

Alterman

lo hakol havalim, biti,
lo hakol havalim vahevel.


Not all is vanity, my daughter,
Not all is vanity of vanities.





Listen to the same lines in a near-creaky voice




Listen to

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!




Experimental Stimuli
it was an ABYSSINIAN maid
Reading I
Reading II


down to a SUNLESS sea
Reading I
Reading II

the milk of PARADISE
Reading I
Reading II

WALLS and towers.wav
Reading I
Reading II

and all should cry BEWARE
Reading I
Reading II

RAN through caverns

Reading I
Reading II



CAVES OF ICE
Reading I
Reading II

prophesying WAR
Reading I
Reading II

I would BUILD that dome
Reading I
Reading II

MEASURELESS to man
Reading I
Reading II

should SEE them there
Reading I
Reading II

as e'er BENEATH a waning moon
Reading I
Reading II

a savage PLACE
Reading I
Reading II

as if this EARTH
Reading I
Reading II

an incense-bearing TREE
Reading I
Reading II

for HE on honey dew hath fed
Reading I
Reading II

spots of GREENERY
Reading I
Reading II

Kubla heard from FAR
Reading I
Reading II

the SACRED river
Reading I
Reading II

CAVES OF ICE
Reading I
Reading II



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