Two groups of parallelism in Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream are selected to analyze the rhythmic features in terms of prominence and duration. By applying Praat to label the sentences, some findings are as follows: In parallel sentences,the duration of each parallel structure is more or less equal due to the same number of prominence, although sentence length is different; the mean duration ofsyllables in long sentences is shorter as a result of vowel truncation.
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