Evidence is accumulating that many temporal features of second language speech are correlated with those of first language speech. This study looks at the correlation between articulation rate, pause rate, and mean pause duration in Japanese first and English second language speech and how second language fluency raters perceive these. In a crosslinguistic corpus of spontaneous speech, mean pau...

Torsade de pointes in the congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is often pause dependent. Thus, the main goal of pacemaker treatment in the LQTS may be the prevention of pauses that facilitate the onset of torsade de pointes. A pause prevention pacing algorithm (rate smoothing) was used for arrhythmia prevention in a 14 year old girl with congenital LQTS. By temporarily increasing the pacing rate ...

This paper deals with the problem of exploiting prosodic information in syntactic analysis of sentences. Duration of pauses at phrase boundaries and relative F0 contour features have been found to be effective for parsing in speaker-dependent case. In this paper, effectiveness of pause and F0 information was examined in a speakerindependent manner by using prosodic features extracted from the s...

We have identified a region in the pretectum of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) that contains units that evince a complete cessation in firing immediately after saccades. The pause occurs for saccades to target steps and catch up saccades during smooth pursuit, spontaneously in complete darkness or after quick phases of nystagmus. Because the pause in unit firing always follows saccade onset, w...