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Breathing, pausing and reading.

F Grosjean, M Collins

    Phonetica
    |January 1, 1979
    PubMed
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    Breathing pauses during speech are influenced by speaking rate and sentence structure. At fast speaking rates, the physiological need to breathe dictates pause timing, overriding linguistic factors.

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    Area of Science:

    • Speech production and phonetics
    • Respiratory physiology
    • Linguistic prosody

    Background:

    • Understanding speech pauses is crucial for fields like linguistics, speech therapy, and artificial intelligence.
    • Previous research has explored the relationship between pauses and linguistic structure, but the interplay with respiratory demands at varying speech rates requires further investigation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate how speaking rate and syntactic structure influence breathing and non-breathing pauses in reading aloud.
    • To determine the relative importance of linguistic planning versus physiological needs in speech pausing.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of breathing patterns during a variable-rate reading task.
    • Examination of pause duration, frequency, and location in relation to speaking rate and syntactic breaks.

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    Main Results:

    • Breathing pause duration and frequency are significantly affected by both speaking rate and the syntactic nature of the pause location.
    • Non-breathing pauses, though shorter, mirror breathing pause patterns and occur at minor constituent breaks.
    • At slower speech rates, speakers align inhalations with planned linguistic pauses.
    • At faster speech rates, the physiological imperative to breathe becomes the primary factor governing pause occurrence.

    Conclusions:

    • Speech pausing is a complex interplay between linguistic planning and physiological constraints.
    • The dominance of physiological breathing needs over linguistic structure at fast speaking rates highlights the adaptive nature of speech production.
    • Findings have implications for understanding speech fluency, disorders, and the development of naturalistic speech synthesis.