Timing in speech: a review of Sanskrit literature and its verification

The concept of timing in speech as held by the ancient Sanskrit Scholars is described. This has been verified by spectrographically analyzing 109 Sanskrit sentences as spoken by ten Sanskrit speakers. The results seem to partly support the notion of Sanskrit grammarians in that their concept regarding the vowel durations gain support from this study. The information obtained from this study and such reviews could be of great importance in the understanding of human speech production and perception.