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. 2020 Mar 17;11(1):1726672. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2020.1726672

Table B3.

Duration.

Feature Parameters/Function Construct
Speech rate (incl pauses) -Words per minute
-Syllables per minute
-Praat: mean, SD, min, max, range
Affect, Emotions,
Fragmentation, Avoidance
Articulation rate (excl pauses) -Words per voiced minute
-Syllables per voiced minute
Affect, Emotions, Avoidance
Phonation rate N(voiced minutes)/N(total minutes) Affect, Emotions, Avoidance
Speech productivity (pause:speech ratio) N(silent minutes)/N(voiced minutes)a Fragmentation
MLU (mean length utterance) -MLU_words
-MLU_mins
Dissociation, Organization,
Fragmentation, Complexity,
Avoidance
Silent (pause duration) Mean, SD, max, n, rate, sum Avoidance
Sounding (speech duration) Mean, SD, max, n, rate, sum Avoidance

a (Lamers et al., 2014). Extracted using Praat version 6.0.4.3.