The subject of this paper is the duration of individual pauses and their distribution over extensive tracts of speech uttered in a variety of situations. The determinants isolated include individuals and conditions of speech utterance (social, emotional, cognitive). The analysis of pause time into duration of individual pauses and pause frequency was shown to be more powerful in gauging the type of decision involved in the production of speech than either of these parameters alone.
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