Occurrence and Duration of Pauses in Relation to Speech Tempo and Structural Organization in Two Speech Genres

Pauses act as important acoustic cues to prosodic phrase boundaries. However, the distribution and phonetic characteristics of pauses have not yet been fully described either cross-linguistically or in different genres and speech styles within languages. The current study examines the pausal perform...

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Main Authors: Pavel Šturm, Jan Volín
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-01-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/23