Longitudinal trends in speech tempo

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Quené, H. (2013). Longitudinal trends in speech tempo: The case of Queen Beatrix. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133 (6), EL452-EL457. [doi:10.1121/1.4802892; PDF].
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• data, with code book in header;
• R script for initialization and LMM;
• table of LMM results.

Extra

• The Dutch word Troonrede /trˈonrˌedə/ means "Throne Speech".
  For background, see Speech_from_the_Throne, Troonrede (in Dutch);
• Figure 1: script, image;
• Audio fragments of the Troonrede of 1984:
  • fragment 058 (13 syll, 2.312 s, 5.62 syll/s)
  • fragment 158 ( 8 syll, 2.188 s, 3.66 syll/s)
  • fragment 934 (14 syll, 2.492 s, 5.62 syll/s)
  • fragment 968 ( 8 syll, 2.198 s, 3.64 syll/s)
• Audio fragments of the Troonrede of 2008:
  • fragment 018 ( 8 syll, 2.806 s, 2.85 syll/s)
  • fragment 073 (14 syll, 2.704 s, 5.18 syll/s)
  • fragment 661 ( 7 syll, 2.120 s, 3.30 syll/s)
  • fragment 676 (13 syll, 2.199 s, 5.91 syll/s)
• Audio fragment of the Troonrede of 2012:
  • fragment 613 (11 syll, 2.050 s, 5.37 syll/s)
• introductory tutorial about statistics with R;
• for pre-processing, analysis and plotting, the following R packages are required:
  parody, lme4, LMERConvenienceFunctions, plotrix;
  the R core and these packages may be obtained from cran.r-project.org or a mirror site.