A large-scale multilingual study of silent pause duration
A large-scale multilingual study of silent pause duration
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无声停顿持续时间的大规模多语言研究
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10.21437/speechprosody.2002-35
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2002
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E. Campione
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本文对五种语言中5 1 / 2小时的阅读和自发言语中的约6000次停顿进行了大规模的研究。停顿的分布表现为三模态，表明短暂（1000毫秒）停顿的分类，后者仅发生在自发讲话中。这项研究揭示了以前的研究中可能存在的方法缺陷，在这些研究中，依赖于正态性假设（如方差分析）的统计检验通常应用于未转换的数据，尽管分布远非正态。它还强调了阈值的危险影响，由于实际原因，阈值在文献中非常普遍，但在比较语言风格、语言或说话者时，可能会导致完全错误的结论。
This paper presents a large-scale study of silent pause duration, based on the analysis of ca. 6000 pauses in 5 1⁄2 hours of read and spontaneous speech in five languages. The distribution of pauses appears as trimodal, suggesting a categorization in brief ( 1000 ms) pauses, the latter occurring only in spontaneous speech. The study reveals possible methodological flaws in previous research in which statistical tests that rely on normality assumption (such as the ANOVA) are routinely applied on non-transformed data, although distributions are far from normal. It also emphasizes the dangerous effect of thresholds, which are very commonly applied in the literature for practical reasons, but can lead to totally false conclusions when comparing speech styles, languages or speakers.