Subject: Re: Statistics for word rate in natural speech From: "Bruno L. Giordano" <brungio@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:00:56 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Thank you all for the useful references and discussion! Another I found for speech rate (wpm) but also syllabic rate is this one: @xxxxxxxx{tauroza1990speech, title={Speech rates in british english}, author={Tauroza, Steve and Allison, Desmond}, journal={Applied linguistics}, volume={11}, number={1}, pages={90--105}, year={1990}, publisher={Am Assoc Appl Ling} } Best, Bruno On 21/06/2016 02:56, Kevin Austin wrote: > 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 >> >> -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/