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Rate and pause characteristics of oral reading
1Department of Speech, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
Abstract:
Twenty-three male subjects each read a paragraph aloud and graphic level recordings of their readings were measured in order to determine the average sentence rate, phrase rate, and duration of phrase and sentence pauses. It was found that noninitial sentences and phrases were significantly faster in rate and that pauses between sentences were significantly longer in duration. The findings are consistent with a reduction of uncertainty hypothesis that rate increases and pause decreases as uncertainty decreases.
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