title: Speech rate and pauses in male speech of Blagoveshchensk residents
abstract: The current paper presents the results of an acoustic study of two prosodic components – speech rate (articulation rate) and hesitation pauses. The material of spontaneous monologues was obtained from 5 male subjects, the residents of Blagoveshchensk, representing two age groups – young and middleaged. Duration measurements were performed on wave forms and dynamic spectrograms in Praat, then descriptive statistics was applied to the obtained data. As a result, it was discovered that all the subj
journal: Theoretical and Applied Linguistics