Subject: Re: Statistics for word rate in natural speech From: Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 21:56:42 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Thank you. In Dunn and White(1940) at the bottom of page 282, the article reads: >>> R.M.S. IN ONE-FOURTH-SECOND INTERVALS >>> >>> The one-eighth-second interval, used in the preceding work, was chosen as being of the same order of magnitude as the length of a syllable. I did not see the reference to ‘how’ this was determined. My reading of ‘order of magnitude’ is that this is a factor of ten. If my understanding is approximately correct, this would mean that rather than 125 ms being the length of a syllable, a syllable could be from about 65ms to 650ms in duration. My understanding of the article is that it is about peak and R.M.S. pressures in 125 ms intervals in 12 frequency bands up to 12kHz. Kevin > On 2016, Jun 20, at 7:33 AM, Christine Rankovic <rankovic@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dunn and White (1940) is a classic report on speech measurements. They assumed 1/8-second as the length of a syllable for their classic measurements. > > The reference is: Dunn, H.K. and White, S.D. (1940). Statistical Measurements on Conversational Speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 11:278-288. > > Christine Rankovic, PhD > Speech and Hearing Scientist > >