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1. Measures of speaking in different languages
2. Speaking rate as an illusion
3. Social and personal factors and speaking rate
Speakers of some languages seem to speak faster
than others.
There are three reasons:
Some languages have more complex syllabus structures
than others.
SPANISH ENGLISH
Hombre Man
Casa House
Some languages are Syllable timed and others stress
timed
• Syllable timed languages: Spanish, French, Italian
• Stress timed languages: English, German
Some languages have some characteristics using higher and
lower speaking rates than others languages in a particular
social situations