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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Acoust Soc Am. 2005 Sep;118(3 Pt 1):1677–1688. doi: 10.1121/1.2000788

TABLE II.

The total number of pauses, average pause duration (s), speaking rate (syll/s), and pitch range (semitones) results for each talker in two speaking styles in English and Croatian.

# of pauses
Pause duration (s)
Speaking rate (syll/s)
Pitch range (semitones)
Talker Conv. Cl. Diff. Conv. Cl. Diff. Conv. Cl. Cl-Con. Diff. (prop. conv.) Conv. Cl. Cl-Con. Diff. (prop. conv.)
EF3 0 8 8 0 0.11 0.11 5.98 4.22 −1.76 0.29 8.89 11.35 2.46 0.28
EF2 0 3 3 0 0.05 0.05 5.43 4.21 −1.22 0.22 12.06 13.34 1.28 0.11
EF1 0 18 18 0 0.21 0.21 5.64 4.07 −1.57 0.28 13.96 14.86 0.90 0.06
EM2 0 8 8 0 0.18 0.18 5.13 3.59 −1.54 0.30 11.44 11.34 −0.10 −0.01
EM1 0 5 5 0 0.12 0.12 4.90 3.71 −1.19 0.24 5.77 6.18 0.42 0.07
Average 0 8.4 8.4 0 0.13 0.13 5.42 3.96 −1.46 0.27 10.42 11.41 0.99 0.10
CM1 0 18 18 0 0.17 0.17 5.85 3.56 −2.28 0.39 9.57 11.82 2.25 0.24
CM2 2 19 17 0.14 0.19 0.05 5.59 4.10 −1.48 0.27 9.27 12.90 3.63 0.39
CM3 0 8 8 0 0.12 0.12 5.45 4.43 −1.02 0.19 7.72 8.91 1.19 0.15
CF2 5 17 12 0.14 0.22 0.08 4.68 4.00 −0.68 0.15 10.01 11.53 1.52 0.15
CF1 5 3 −2 0.07 0.20 0.12 5.80 4.14 −1.66 0.29 6.90 7.05 0.14 0.02
Average 2.4 13 10.6 0.07 0.18 0.11 5.47 4.05 −1.43 0.25 8.69 10.44 1.75 0.19