The research for the effect of speaking rate to segmental reduction

Xiaoxia Chen

This paper mainly researches the speaking rate effect for segmental reduction in a phrase word. Four speakers spoke eight words with different speaking rates. The investigation includes the durational variation of each syllable, the durational variation of each semi-syllable and the total word duration variation. Different speakersf material in read speech was explored at last.

Cite as: Chen, X. (2006) The research for the effect of speaking rate to segmental reduction. Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2006), 39-42

@inproceedings{chen06b_tal,
  author={Xiaoxia Chen},
  title={{The research for the effect of speaking rate to segmental reduction}},
  year=2006,
  booktitle={Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2006)},
  pages={39--42}
}