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Temporally segmented speech is continuous speech broken up by the insertion of silent intervals. The durations of the resulting speech intervals and silent intervals can be varied independently. When silent intervals are held constant at 200 msec, and speech interval duration is varied, intelligibility falls from about 90% to about 10% as speech interval duration is reduced from 200 to 30 msec. When speech interval duration is held constant at 63 msec, and silent interval duration is varied, intelligibility recovers from its asymptotic value of about 50% with long silent intervals, to 100% as the silent intervals are shortened from about 120 msec to about 60 msec. Implications for short-term acoustic storage are discussed.
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A preliminary report of this research was presented at the 83rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Buffalo. 1972. The research was supported by NIH Grant NS04332. The author is now also at Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
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Huggins, A.W.F. Temporally segmented speech. Perception & Psychophysics 18, 149–157 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204103
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