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Gilden, David L.; Mezaraups, Taylor M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
It is shown that a particular class of pauses taken in both read and composed speech obey allometric laws such that mean pause length predicts body size. The pauses in this class have durations that roughly span 250 ms to 1,000 ms and are taken to mark grammatical and prosodic boundaries. A theory of pause allometry is developed based on the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Speech Communication