Preferred Listening Rate as a Function of Exposure to Time-Compressed Speech and Type of Time-Compression

摘要

Two experiments investigated preferred listening rates. Preferred listening rates were found to be initially low--approximately at the normal rate of speech -- at the beginning of exposure to time-compressed speech. The rates were lower for speeded speech than for compressed speech. After exposure to time-compressed speech of approximately an hour, equally divided between the two types of time-compressed speech, the rates rose. The gain was relatively greater for compressed speech than for speeded speech, and post-exposure compressed speech rates were comparable to other preferred listening rate values reported in the literature. The gain in rates was discussed in terms of learning, habituation, and type of information processing. (Author)