A statement formulated by a speaker carries a plenitude of information. A number of these pieces of information is located in the segmental layer - the contents of the statement. Other pieces of information are contained in the suprasegmental layer. When delivering a statement we are not always sure what part of it consists of non-speaking. Admittedly, we think only of what we want to say and not of the non-verbal components which make delivering a statement possible. This paper presents one of the research problems tackled within the framework of a doctoral dissertation concerning the rate of children’s speech.
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Wypowiedź formułowana przez nadawcę niesie za sobą liczne informacje. Szereg z nich mieści się w jej warstwie segmentalnej – treści komunikatu. Kolejne zawiera także warstwa suprasegmentalna wypowiedzi. Realizując wypowiedź, nie zawsze mamy świadomość, jaką jej część stanowi niemówienie. Myślimy przecież wyłącznie o tym, co chcemy powiedzieć, nie o składnikach, które w niemy sposób nam to umożliwiają. Artykuł zawiera dokładne dane, poparte wynikami badań autorskich, dotyczące procentowego udziału „mówienia” i „niemówienia” w wypowiedziach dziecięcych.
This paper presents the results of: 1. measurements of selected parameters determining the rate of utterances, 2. comparative analyses of specific parameters in two study groups: physiologically ageing people, falling into the “old-old” category, and nine-year-old pupils with no developmental or language disorders. When gathering the study material with the use of measurement tools (the Audacity program) and its statistical processing (tests: Shapiro–Wilk, Mann–Whitney, Fisher–Snadecor), the following parameters-indicators allowing the prediction of the speech tempo were taken into consideration and analysed: 1. basic: the average speaking rate (speech sounds, syllables + duration of pauses), the average articulation rate (speech sounds, syllables), the average share of pauses in utterances (number + percentage data); 2. supplementary: the average duration of all pauses, the average duration of proper pauses, the average duration of filled pauses, the average duration of partly filled pauses.
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