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ERIC Number: EJ751004
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Oct
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-1092-4388
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Interspeaker Variation in Habitual Speaking Rate: Additional Evidence
Tsao, Ying-Chiao; Weismer, Gary; Iqbal, Kamran
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v49 n5 p1156-1164 Oct 2006
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to test the hypothesis that talkers previously classified by Y.-C. Tsao and G. Weismer (1997) as habitually fast versus habitually slow would show differences in the way they manipulated articulation rate across the rate continuum. Method: Thirty talkers previously classified by Tsao and Weismer (1997) as having habitually slow (n = 15; 7 males, 8 females) and habitually fast (n = 15; 8 males, 7 females) articulation rates produced a single sentence at 7 different rates, using a magnitude production paradigm. Hence, the participants were not randomly assigned to conditions. Results: Quadratic regression functions relating measured to intended articulation rates were all statistically significant, and most important, there were significant differences between the slow and fast groups in the y intercepts of the functions, for both males and females. Conclusions: This study provides a constructive replication of Tsao and Weismer (1997), showing a difference between slow and fast talkers with a new set of speech materials and in a new task. The findings appear to be consistent with a biological basis for intertalker rate differences.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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