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I don't have a source for this, but at some point I read a paper which indicated that for languages with a lower information density per syllable, people speak
by ddevault 8y ago
I don't have a source for this, but at some point I read a paper which indicated that for languages with a lower information density per syllable, people speak faster, and vice versa, so on average all humans communicate the same amount of information per second.
- nikanj 8y agoI've somewhat noticed the same thing with just regional accents of english. The faster the accent, the more "filler" the speech contains.