Open AccessFrequency and Availability in the Encoding of Spontaneous Speech
Author(s) -
Neil McK. Mercer
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
language and speech
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1756-6053
pISSN - 0023-8309
DOI - 10.1177/002383097601900204
Subject(s) - speech production , dialogic , encoding (memory) , word (group theory) , linguistics , speech recognition , psychology , communication , computer science , cognitive psychology , philosophy , pedagogy
A corpus of dialogic spontaneous speech was analysed with reference to the word-sequences which follow hesitations occurring within phonemic classes. The average frequencies of occurrence of the words in such sequences were found to be directly related to their number. The implications of these results for models of the speech production system are considered.
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