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The Trouble with "Articulatory" Pauses

Year: 1983

Type: article

Abstract: The historical provenance of a minimum cut-off point (of about 0.25 sec) for pauses in temporal analyses of speech production is associated with Goldman-Eisler's usage. Her rationale was the predominance of articulatory pauses at lengths shorter than 0.25 sec. Both phonotactic facts and empirical analysis of several corpora of readings disconfirm this predominance with respect to pauses 0.13-0.25 sec in length. The vast majority of these pauses are found to be psychological; they are determined by syntax, punctuation, rhetorical and expressive emphasis, poetic format, and stylistic pecularities.

Source: Language and Speech

DOI: 10.1177/002383098302600302

Authors: Adolf E. Hieke, Sabine Kowal, Daniel C. O'Connell

Institutions: University of Bayreuth, Technische Universität Berlin, Loyola University Chicago

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2339717387

FWCI: 3.882

Cites: 24

Cited by: 101

Related to: 10