A previous study showed that ‘bright’ vowels (i.e. front vowels, which have higher second formants) are favoured for on-beat words in hip-hop music. Here we partially replicated these findings in a more diverse sample of pop songs from the Rolling Stone Corpus. Stressed monosyllables were classified by their vowel’s place of articulation and their metric position. Bright vowels were 9–13% more likely on weak (but not strong) beats and metric positions immediately surrounding than other metric positions. Favouring bright vowels on and surrounding weak beats may mitigate masking by the snare drum, which typically plays on weak beats.

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流行音乐歌词中的弱节拍偏向于明亮的元音

之前的一项研究表明，“明亮”元音（即前元音，具有较高的第二共振峰）在嘻哈音乐中更适合用于节拍词。在这里，我们在来自滚石语料库的更多样化的流行歌曲样本中部分复制了这些发现。重读单音节按元音的发音位置和公制位置进行分类。与其他公制位置相比，在紧邻的弱（但不强）节拍和公制位置上，亮元音的可能性要高 9-13%。在弱拍上和周围偏爱明亮的元音可以减轻军鼓的掩蔽，小军鼓通常在弱拍上播放。