Subject: Re: Statistics for word rate in natural speech From: Arun Chandra <arunc@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 21:39:11 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>In Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro", Bartolo sings his revenge aria at about quarter == 112mm, which means the syllables are going by in triplets at about 336 per minute. in Rossini's "Barber of Seville", the character Bartolo (the same character, again) sings his accusing aria to Rosina (his ward) at about quarter == 116mm, which means the sixteenth note syllables are going by at about 464 per minute. the "Modern Major General's Song" by Gilbert and Sullivan goes by at about 184mm, so it's syllables are about 368 per minute. arun On 6/18/16 4:07 AM, Huron, David wrote: > We have a wide tolerance for speech with "normal" paces ranging between 170 and 260 syllables per minute. > (Yuan, Liberman & Cieri, 2006; Towards an integrated understanding of speaking rate in conversation. INTER SPEECH conference Proc.) > > Music exhibits an enormous range of lyrical pace. Judy Garland's rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" clocks in at a leisurely 64 syllables per minute. By contrast, in "Ms. Jackson" by OutKast, rapper Big Boi reaches an extraordinary 379 syllables per minute. > > -David Huron with Nat Condit-Schultz > > ________________________________________ > From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx on behalf of Bruno L. Giordano [brungio@xxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 8:32 AM > To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Statistics for word rate in natural speech > > Hello, > > I am looking for published statistics on average word rate in natural > speech (words/minute). > > Is there some golden standard reference for this? > > Thank you! > > Bruno > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Bruno L. Giordano, PhD > Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology > 58 Hillhead Street, University of Glasgow > Glasgow, G12 8QB, Scotland > T +44 (0) 141 330 5484 > Www: http://www.brunolgiordano.net > Email charter: http://www.emailcharter.org/ > -- Arun Chandra COM 308A The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA 98505 office: (360) 867-6077 email: arunc@xxxxxxxx