Researches on the rhythm of speech.
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Table LXVIII.
{Poetry read as poetry, Tennyson verses)
Subject.
a
f
1
e
c
n
w. c.
0.66
0.20
0.30
+1-52
33
— 0.22
+
s.
0.77
0.21
0.27
+ 1-47
32
— 0.25
+
Av.
0.71
0.20
0.28
Table LXIX.
{Summary of complex-centroid intervals of verses of Browning and Tennyson read as
poetry)
Table. ■
a
P
7
a
LXVII.
0.48
0.17
0-34
LXVIII.
0.71
0.20
0.28
Av.
o-59
0.18
0.31
Table LXX.
{Prose read as poetry)
Subject.
a
p
p 7
e
c
n
S. I.
0.61
0.17 O.27
+1-25
—0.32
+
21
0. E. S.
0.69
0.20 0.29
+ I-37
23
— 0.21
+
Av.
0.65
0.18 0.28
Table LXXI.
{Summary of complex-centroid intervals
speech)
Table.
a
P
t
a
LXIII.
0-55
0.13
0.22
LXIV.
0.62
0.21
0.32
LXV.
0.56
0.17
0.30
LXV1.
0.54
0.16
0.28
LXIX.
0.59
0.18
0.31
LXX.
0.65
0.18
0.28
Av.
0.58
0.17
0.28
Unit of measurement, Is.
a, average duration.
, immediate probable error.
e, extreme intervals.
c, character of greater extreme.
n, number of intervals.
relative immediate probable error.
Results.—The number of internals measured was 1054.