The quantitative organization of speech

n the course of listening to an utterance, how can the
listener infer how long the utterance is going to be altogether?
If this information is available at an early point, it allows to
rule out on-line all instances of total utterance structure
possible, which do not fit the anticipated window. Hence,
decoding effort would be disburdened immensely. The model
introduced in this connection gives an integrating view on
prosodic surface phenomena such as phrasing/euphony as well
as rhythm/isochrony, tracing the temporal organization of
different units to a common deeper level representation
referred to as the Quantitative Organization of speech (QO).

Posterpräsentation