Interaction between rhythmic prominences and intonation
Paul C. Boomsliter · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1976
Students played scales on equipment which provided altermative tunings of scale notes. When instructed to dwell on one or another note, they chose different tunings for the subsequent notes of the scale. This suggests that when a note is made prominent, it is likely to establish a second tonal center to which later intonations are related. Thus the rhythmic structure of a melodic phrase interacts with pitch choices in performance.