The investigation of certain non-content aspects of speech—the lengths of utterances and pauses in speech—have always suffered from difficulties of measurement. The methods used have been laborious, sometimes expensive, and no study so far has investigated the magnitude of error involved in measurement. This paper describes a relatively inexpensive method for recording and measuring lengths of utterances and pauses in speech, and shows the amount of error involved in these measures.
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