creators_name: Zellner, Brigitte
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2000-07-24
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:21
metadata_visibility: show
title: Fast and Slow Speech Rate: a Characterisation for French
ispublished: pub
subjects: ling-phono
full_text_status: public
keywords: speech rate, modelling various speech rates, rhythm, speech rhythm, prosody, speech synthesis, fast speech rate, slow soeech rate, timing, speech timing, temporal structures of speech
abstract: This paper is concerned with the evaluation of speech rate in French. Usually, this dynamic parameter is described as a unidimensional quantitative dimension. It is shown that the slowing down of speech has also major qualitative effects that must be taken into account. The theory on slowing down speech is thus revised.
date: 1998
date_type: published
volume: 7
pagerange: 3159-3163
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Zellner, Brigitte  (1998) Fast and Slow Speech Rate: a Characterisation for French.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/893/3/ZellnerSpeechRate.pdf