<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I'd like to test the effect of speech rate as part of a variationist study, and all my data is in time-aligned transcripts (done in ELAN).</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I am considering the following method as a way of getting rough speech-rate calculations for a large number of utterances:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">1. For each annotation (representing an utterance), calculate the total time of the utterance by subtracting start-time from end-time</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">2. For each annotation, calculate the number of syllables by using a regex to count vowels (luckily, in this language number of vowels = number of syllables)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">3. Divide utterance time by number of syllables for each utterance.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I'm pretty sure this language should be considered "syllable-timed" rather than "stress-timed".</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Does anybody have any experience with a similar operation?</div></div>