rhythmic structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrhythmicandstructure
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rhythmic
adjective
uk/ˈrɪð.mɪk/us/ˈrɪð.mɪk/
A rhythmic sound has a regular movement or beat that ...
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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(Definition ofrhythmicandstructurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Information about a whole derived word would include not only its segmental characteristics, but also itsrhythmicstructureincluding primary stress placement.
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The second movement employs an authoritativerhythmicstructurewhich is underpinned by fairly brusque and defined guitar sounds.
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Rhythmicstructure, he said, could embrace any sounds of any qualities and pitches, including silence.
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Stress is one manifestation of thisrhythmicstructure, in that heads of feet are interpreted as stressed, and heads of words as bearing primary stress.
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First, it develops a certain musicality, with rhetorical repetition creating the semblance ofrhythmicstructure, and the absence of melody creating a negative awareness of it.
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Eventfulness permeates all decisions in a production from decisions of space organization and casting to narrative andrhythmicstructure.
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The author relates sentence structure torhythmicstructure, pointing out that the verb and its arguments tend to receive prominence within a sentence, ultimately aiding the encoding process.
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Medea's otherness was signalled from the outset, and was accentuated through therhythmicstructureof the scene.
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Huber's harmonic scheme, based on subdivisions of the major third, was also designed to clarify the complexrhythmicstructure.
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Hence, the former are unlikely to be omitted for purely phonological reasons : leaving out a whole syllable would dramatically affect the overallrhythmicstructureof the word.
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She broke the conventionalrhythmicstructureof the waltz, later broke convention with her poetic cadences as well.
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Her works are notably characterized as polyrhythmic in the sense ofrhythmicstructure...
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In fact, the overallrhythmicstructureis generated through cross-rhythm.
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Prelude 4 is also in 3/8 time and has a somewhat similarrhythmicstructure, slightly simplified and written on two staves.
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Though much of the book is written in free verse, itsrhythmicstructuremaintains its poetic characteristics.
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The collage-likerhythmicstructuregrows from the iambic rhythm found at the beginning of the first strophe.
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Therhythmicstructureof the piece or song is typically provided by drums or percussion in most types of popular music, jazz, and blues.
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