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Peer reviewedCooper, William E.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
The analysis of syllable and pause durations in speech production can provide information about the properties of a speaker's grammatical code. Seven experiments analyzed syllable and pause durations in structurally ambiguous sentences. Results showed that a single hierarchial principle provided a unified account of speech timing effects for…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Rhythm
