Corpora: Relatve text length

[Jean Veronis]

At 22:54 26/04/2002 +0200, you wrote:

>A similar question that interests me is how to measure which
>languages are 'faster' or 'slower' in speech. How much time
>does it take to utter parallel texts in various languages? Surely
>you would have to define a standard speech tempo in each of them,
>and there would be a lot of caveats, yet I think it should be possible
>to do research and get some reasonable results. (Or, perhaps the
>subject has been researched already? At the moment I'm not aware
>of any extensive study. Any hints?)


There are results for 5 languages in the following PhD :

Campione, E. (2001). Etiquetage prosodique semi-automatique de corpus oraux 
: algorithmes et méthodologie. Thèse de doctorat. Aix-en-Provence: 
Université de Provence.

Available at:

http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/delic/theses/resume-campione.html