The aim of the present review article is to guide the reader through portions of the human
time perception, or temporal processing, literature. After distinguishing the main …

Whether some languages or dialects are spoken faster or slower than others constitutes a
gap in the understanding of sociolinguistic variation. Speech tempo is interconnected with …

We investigate factors that affect speaking rate in conversation, using large corpora of
conversational telephone speech in English and Chinese. We find that speaking rate as a …

Speech tempo (articulation rate) varies both between and within speakers. The present
study investigates several factors affecting tempo in a corpus of spoken Dutch, consisting of …

Prosodic features in spontaneous speech help disambiguate implied meaning not explicit in
linguistic surface structure, but little research has examined how these signals manifest …

The speech rate and pitch (F 0) characteristics of naturalistic, longitudinally recorded infant-
and adult-directed speech are reported for three, genetically diverse languages. Previous …

PurPose—To establish what is currently known about factors that affect foreign language
listening comprehension, with a focus on characteristics of the listener, passage, and testing …

Studies of listeners' ability to distinguish languages when segmental information is
eliminated have been taken as evidence for categorical rhythmic distinctions between …

Recordings of speech play a central role in the diverse subdisciplines of linguistics. The
reliance on speech recordings is especially profound in sociolinguistics, where scholars …

Phonetic transcription is a key element in many kinds of written works, not least linguistics
books, dictionaries, language-teaching texts and bilingual reference works. This book is the …