How fast did Cicero speak? : the speech rate of Classical Latin versus its Romance descendants
Stelzer, Daniel (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Data:	2022
Resum:	While languages convey significantly different amounts of both information per syllable and syllables per second, recent research suggests that the product of these values- information conveyed per second-is much less variable. Using new methods of extrapolation and resampling, I was able to estimate the information conveyed per syllable in a written Classical Latin corpus. I was then able to use this cross-linguistic consistency to estimate the natural speech rate of Classical Latin, a language that has not been natively spoken for thousands of years. My analysis suggests that it was spoken at a rate significantly slower than modern Romance languages, fairly similar to modern English; a high-level consideration of historical sound changes in Romance supports this conclusion, lending additional credence to my results.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Information density ; Speech rate ; Latin ; Information theory ; Resampling
Publicat a:	Isogloss, Vol. 8 Núm. 4 (2022) , p. 1-24 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v8-n4-stelzer
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.169

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