Fluent and Hesitation Pauses as a Function of Syntactic Complexity

No AccessJournal of Speech and Hearing ResearchResearch Article1 Mar 1972Fluent and Hesitation Pauses as a Function of Syntactic Complexity Kenneth F. Ruder, and Paul J. Jensen Kenneth F. Ruder University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Google Scholar and Paul J. Jensen University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Google Scholar https: //doi. org/10. 1044/jshr. 1501. 49 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In The effect of syntactic complexity on fluent and hesitation pause durations was investigated. The stimuli consisted of five recorded sentences within which the words lost and contact were manipulated so that their syntactic relation to each other varied in complexity from sentence to sentence. Twelve subjects, working individually, mechanically adjusted the silent interval duration between the words lost and contact within each sentence in order to locate (1) the pause detection threshold, (2) optimal fluent pause duration, and (3) minimal hesitation pause duration. Silent interval duration did not differ significantly from one level of syntactic complexity to the next for either pause detection threshold or fluent pause. Hesitation pause duration, however, did differ significantly as a function of syntactic structure, in that hesitation pauses perceived within a subordinate clause boundary were significantly longer in duration than were those occurring in other types of syntactic boundaries. Further, subjects were consistent in their perceptual judgments of speech pauses from one time to the next. Individual subjects, however, showed a considerable degree of variability. Additional Resources FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited by Journal of Fluency Disorders71 (105896) 1 Mar 2022The effect of gap duration on the perception of fluent versus disfluent speechHaley J. Warner, D. H. Whalen, Daphna Harel and Eric S. Jackson The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America152: 1 (184-192) 1 Jul 2022Speech tempo in Hungarian speaking children and adolescents: The effects of age and speaking tasksJudit Bóna and Viola Váradi International Journal of Learner Corpus Research3: 2 (118-148) 4 Dec 2017Fluently disfluent? Malte Belz, Simon Sauer, Anke Lüdeling and Christine Mooshammer Acta Linguistica Hungarica57: 2-3 (288-306) 1 Jun 2010Filled pauses in Hungarian: Their phonetic form and functionViktória Horváth Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders23: 2 (309-322) 1 Jun 1993Pauses in the narratives produced by autistic, mentally retarded, and normal children as an index of cognitive demandChristopher Thurber and Helen Tager-Flusberg Konstanze Dames (1986) Einfluss der Syntax auf die Zeitstruktur der Nachsprechleistungen sprachentwicklungsgestörter und sprachunauffälliger Kinder Sprechwissenschaft & Psycholinguistik10. 1007/978-3-322-94350-7₆ Language and Speech28: 4 (377-389) 1 Oct 1985Perception of Silent Pauses in Continuous SpeechDanielle Duez Computers and Biomedical Research16: 5 (446-453) 1 Oct 1983Utterance and pause lengths and frequencies in oral readings by superior esophageal speakers and by normal speakersYoshiyuki Horii Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation15: 4 (449-452) 1 Jul 1983An automatic analysis method of utterance and pause lengths and frequenciesYoshiyuki Horii Language and Speech25: 1 (11-28) 1 Jan 1982Silent and Non-Silent Pauses in Three Speech StylesDanielle Duez Cognitive Psychology11: 1 (58-81) 1 Jan 1979The patterns of silence: Performance structures in sentence productionFrançois Grosjean, Lysiane Grosjean and Harlan Lane D. Kloker A technique for the automatic location and description of pitch contours IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing10. 1109/ICASSP. 1976. 1170153 D. Larreur and F. Emerard Speech synthesis by dyads and automatic intonation processing IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing10. 1109/ICASSP. 1976. 1170150 Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation4: 6 (304-312) 1 Nov 1972Pause adjustment mechanism and measurement system (PAMMS) Paul J. Jensen, Kenneth F. Ruder and Wayne D. Harrington Volume 15Issue 1March 1972Pages: 49-60 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library HistoryReceived: Aug 21, 1970 Published in issue: Mar 1, 1972PubMed ID: 5012811 Metrics Topicsasha-topicsasha-article-typesCopyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1972 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPDF downloadLoading. . .