Relationships between rhythm and speech rate

Dellwo V, Wagner P. Relationships between rhythm and speech rate. Presented at the 15th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona.The interaction between speech rate and rhythm is a topic that has hardly been studied in respective models of language rhythm though its potential significance has recently been addressed: since both of these prosodic parameters are to a great extent dependent on speech timing they are suspected to interact to a great degree. The present research studies the influence of speech rate on the vocalic and intervocalic measures %V and ..