… In American English, shifts in speech style are an important source of phonetic and …
Fast or casual speech is typically reduced or under-specified compared to careful speech. In …

… The present study shows the opposite in that these American English speakers had a faster
speaking rate when their phrases were shorter. We will return to this in General Discussion. …

… The general pattern that can be drawn from comparison of these four varieties of English
is that adult speakers of NZE show the fastest speech rate and speakers of AuE show the …

… deletion rate in fast speech was 43%. One … speech would be more like that found in
consulative speech (9%) and that Dalby’s fast speech results may be more relevant to how speech …

… rate on obstruent deletion, a non-phonologized lenition process in American English. Deletion
of a segment is easily detected through the alignment of segments to their output (or lack …

… Rudes claims to have found four significant levels of fast speech in isolated idiolects of
American English he investigated. The four are arranged in order of increasing relative tempo. At …

… speech to fast speech. This thesis does not attempt to describe all dialects of English; for the
purposes of this thesis, 'English', from this point on, will refer only to North American English. …

… benefits of brief exposure to non-native speech. Native … group was expected to be faster
than the control group because … All were native speakers of American English and reported no …

… fastest and Southern and Midland speakers the slowest. In a study of vowel duration in …
American English dialects based on a sample of data from the Atlas of North American English (…

… American English vowels, it is surprising to find a large gap … for work on vowels in phonetics
and speech science, yet in … of three regions of contemporary American English: westernmost …