Projektnummer

0058808

Zusammenfassung

When people speak, they constantly speed up and slow down, i.e. they modulate their articulation speed. At what particular points in discourse do these modulations occur and why? This project investigates variation in the articulation speed of words in context and investigates the complex interaction of factors that determines it. The project will carry out a set of integrated studies using as a unique resource a set of corpora from ten languages spoken all around the world, from the Amazonian rainforest (Bora and Baure), to Mexico (Texistepec Popoluca), the North American great plains...