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Aylett, Matthew; Turk, Alice – Language and Speech, 2004
This paper explores two related factors which influence variation in duration, prosodic structure and redundancy in spontaneous speech. We argue that the constraint of producing robust communication while efficiently expending articulatory effort leads to an inverse relationship between language redundancy and duration. The inverse relationship…
Descriptors: Speech, Redundancy, Correlation, Interpersonal Communication