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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Language difficulty/variation
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In article <4t4ra0$c61@news.ox.ac.uk>
patrick@gryphon.psych.ox.ac.uk (Patrick Juola) writes:

> How do you measure "oral length"?  Time of utterance or number 
> of phonemes?  


The latter.


> 
> I think (no references handy, sorry) that the experiment using
> time-of-utterance as the metric has been done, and results in
> considerably less than 30% variation for conventional speech
> measured cross-linguistically.  This has been hypothesized to
> relate to the perception that, e.g., Frenchmen speak faster --
> they put more words into a unit of time.
> 
>         Patrick

What I expected.


David

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