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Perception of Silent Pauses in Continuous Speech

Author(s) -

Danielle Duez

Publication year - 1985

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 - 10.1177/002383098502800403

Subject(s) - perception , salient , vowel , casual , psychology , duration (music) , speech perception , cognitive psychology , speech recognition , linguistics , audiology , acoustics , computer science , physics , political science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , medicine , neuroscience , law

The perception of silent pauses in continuous speech was investigated experimentally in three genres: political speeches, political interviews and casual interviews. Normal and inverted speech yielded similar perception. The result is interpreted as being an indicator of the salient role of the prosodic structures. The distributional patterning of pauses proves to be responsible for the variability of perception. Pause duration is the essential parameter; pause identification rate is positively correlated with it, and it interacts with the parameter values of the vowel preceding the pause.

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