When Simon Ernst decided he wanted to work for six months as a volunteer dentist in Africa, he ex... more When Simon Ernst decided he wanted to work for six months as a volunteer dentist in Africa, he expected to spend all his time working in one place. Instead he found himself organising the trip of a lifetime, working with three different organisations in three different African countries. Here is describes some of the lows of the planning process, and the extraordinary highs he experienced once he arrived.
Two new genera of Entedoninae are described from Afrotropical region. The genus Janicharis gen. n... more Two new genera of Entedoninae are described from Afrotropical region. The genus Janicharis gen. nov. (type species: J. africana spec. nov.) is described from Cameroon, Nigeria and Madagascar. The genus Hakuna gen. nov. (type species: H. matata spec. nov.) is described from Uganda. Both genera have a rather characteristic habitus and a peculiar propodeum bearing large anterolateral strips. A new,
Recent evidence suggests that the musical rhythm of a particular culture may parallel the speech ... more Recent evidence suggests that the musical rhythm of a particular culture may parallel the speech rhythm of that culture's language (Patel, A. D., & Daniele, J. R. (2003). An empirical comparison of rhythm in language and music. Cognition, 87, B35-B45). The present experiments aimed to determine whether listeners actually perceive such rhythmic differences in a purely musical context (i.e., in instrumental music without words). In Experiment 1a, listeners successfully classified instrumental renditions of French and English songs having highly contrastive rhythmic differences. Experiment 1b replicated this result with the same songs containing rhythmic information only. In Experiments 2a and 2b, listeners successfully classified original and rhythm-only stimuli when language-specific rhythmic differences were less contrastive but more representative of differences found in actual music and speech. These findings indicate that listeners can use rhythmic similarities and differences to classify songs originally composed in two languages having contrasting rhythmic prosody.
When Simon Ernst decided he wanted to work for six months as a volunteer dentist in Africa, he ex... more When Simon Ernst decided he wanted to work for six months as a volunteer dentist in Africa, he expected to spend all his time working in one place. Instead he found himself organising the trip of a lifetime, working with three different organisations in three different African countries. Here is describes some of the lows of the planning process, and the extraordinary highs he experienced once he arrived.
Two new genera of Entedoninae are described from Afrotropical region. The genus Janicharis gen. n... more Two new genera of Entedoninae are described from Afrotropical region. The genus Janicharis gen. nov. (type species: J. africana spec. nov.) is described from Cameroon, Nigeria and Madagascar. The genus Hakuna gen. nov. (type species: H. matata spec. nov.) is described from Uganda. Both genera have a rather characteristic habitus and a peculiar propodeum bearing large anterolateral strips. A new,
Recent evidence suggests that the musical rhythm of a particular culture may parallel the speech ... more Recent evidence suggests that the musical rhythm of a particular culture may parallel the speech rhythm of that culture's language (Patel, A. D., & Daniele, J. R. (2003). An empirical comparison of rhythm in language and music. Cognition, 87, B35-B45). The present experiments aimed to determine whether listeners actually perceive such rhythmic differences in a purely musical context (i.e., in instrumental music without words). In Experiment 1a, listeners successfully classified instrumental renditions of French and English songs having highly contrastive rhythmic differences. Experiment 1b replicated this result with the same songs containing rhythmic information only. In Experiments 2a and 2b, listeners successfully classified original and rhythm-only stimuli when language-specific rhythmic differences were less contrastive but more representative of differences found in actual music and speech. These findings indicate that listeners can use rhythmic similarities and differences to classify songs originally composed in two languages having contrasting rhythmic prosody.
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