Random Generation of Apparent Speech Rhythms
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 15 (1), 68-71
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383097201500109
Abstract
In order to illustrate the misinterpretation of time series data, simulated temporal patterns of vocalizations and pauses were generated from a table of random digits. These data exhibited precisely those characteristics which, when seen in graphs of actual spontaneous speech, have heretofore been taken as evidence for cognitive planning. This concretizes a previously made point concerning the need to distinguish random process from causal connection.Keywords
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