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Direct linkRobb, Michael P.; Maclagan, Margaret A.; Chen, Yang – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
Various acoustic measures of speaking rate were calculated for 40 adult speakers of New Zealand English (NZE). These measures were then compared to a group of 40 adult speakers of American English (AE). Results of the analysis identified significantly faster overall speaking rate and articulation rate for the NZE group compared to the AE group. No…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, English, Language Variation
Cheng, Chin-Chuan – 1986
A study of the relationships between Chinese dialects based on a quantitative measure of dialect affinity is summarized. First, tone values in all the dialect localities available in the early 1970s were used to calculate the dialectal differences in terms of tone height with respect to the "yin and yang" split. In the late 1970s, calculations of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
