Citation

Grosjean F, Lane H. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1976; 2(4): 538-543.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, American Psychological Association)

DOI

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PMID

1011003

Abstract

The rate of speaking in words per minute is a function of three independent variables, namely, articulation rate and the number and durations of pauses. The present study varies each of these components separately in a factorial design in order to determine how the listener combines them into a global impression of speech rate. A model was obtained by direct scaling and linear regression that accounts reasonably well for the estimates of apparent rate obtained in this and several other studies. It provides for a trading relation between articulation rate and pause rate in which the former is much more influential in determining the listener's perception of speech rate.

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