Time-Patterns Of Speech In Normal Subjects. II

Abstract

Frequency distribution in the units of speech of 8 subjects were lumped into an avg. distr. and studied for time delay and time-patterns of speech by means of a mathematical analyzer. For most delays in speech the tendency is for random distrs. Departure randomness, however, is quite pronounced at very small delays on 1 hand and relatively long delays on the other. Actual distr. curves show a number of unexplained irregularities. Shorter units and more particularly the units which had an avg. duration of 1.5 sec. were more numerous than would be expected from the theoretical distr. Shorter words and shorter expressions may be considerably more numerous than longer ones and there may be a tendency to stop for a significant pause after many of the shorter words.