![]() Intelligibility of lyrics was facilitated: (i) when words contained diphthongs rather than monophthongs (ii) when a word from an immediately previous passage reappeared (iii) when a syllabic setting of a word was preceded by a melismatic setting of the same word. Intelligibility of lyrics was degraded: (i) when archaic language was used (ii) when words were set in melismatic rather than syllabic contexts (iii) when the musical rhythm did not match the prosodic speech rhythm and (iv) when successive target words rhymed. Eight hypotheses derived from common phonological and prosodic principles were tested. Six vocalists produced the corpus of sung phrases. Twenty-seven participants listened to recordings of musical passages sung in English each passage consisted of a brief musical phrase sung by a solo voice. ![]() This study investigated several factors presumed to influence the intelligibility of song lyrics.
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