As the affect task requires the 3 acoustic correlates of prosody, namely pitch variations, duration (pauses and silences) and intensity, this task was unsurprisingly less well performed by the HFA group than by the control group.
These included number of pauses (no sucking > 1 s), duration of pauses, pauses per minute and duration of pauses per minute of feeding.
Interestingly, Rpc37/53 and TFIIF might be expected to elicit opposite effects because the intact Pol III is slower, exhibits longer-duration pausing, and terminates more efficiently than the enzyme lacking Rpc37/53 (Landrieux et al. 2006), whereas TFIIF has been shown to increase Pol II elongation rate and decrease pausing (reviewed in Shilatifard et al. 2003).
The duration of pausing once paused ECs form can be increased by backtracking of DNA and RNA through RNAP, during which the 3′ RNA enters the RNAP secondary channel.
In the newborns and infants with mixed feeding, the equivalence analysis showed that fewer suction movements and pauses, and shorter duration of pauses, occurred in bottle feeding compared with breastfeeding.
Total reading duration and pause duration demonstrated a declining trend during connected speech.
This reduces the probability of misclassifying a given duration as pause or subpause.
Their catastrophe frequency per minute was increased significantly, by 43% (Table 2), which is consistent with and may account for the 29% reduction in the duration of pause events.
The number and duration of pauses missed by this algorithm were inferred by fitting the pause durations to a single exponential with a maximum likelihood estimator.
As explained before, increased speech rate reduces the number of prosodic phrases and also reduces the duration of pauses.
