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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aphasiology. 2016 Jul 21;31(2):241–260. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2016.1191054

Table 2.

Quantitative fluency measures

Variable Name Derivation
Speech rate = # total syllables / total response duration (s)
Articulation rate = # total syllables / total speech duration (s)
Mean pause duration = total pause duration (s) / # pause events
Proportion pause = total pause duration (s) / total response duration (s)
Pause event frequency = # pause events / total response duration (s)