The measurement of syllable duration (in milliseconds) dependent on word length (measured in number of syllables) was performed on 488 words (with 3961 repetitions whose means were used for computation) of spoken texts of the German dialect of Bachka (Yugoslavia).

word_syllable_time

Format

A data frame with 5 rows and 2 variables:

x

word, in syllable

y

syllable, in milliseconds

Source

Altmann_1980