BBC News blooper This fast-rising viral number serves as a succinct lesson on the value of grammatical pauses in speech.
Nevertheless, the fact was proved only for the grammatical pauses, while for the ungrammatical ones the opposite was observed.
High-quality speech without grammatical speech pauses within sentences can be highly intelligible and acceptable.
But, as soon as the speech quality is less than normal, or the speech is listened in noisy conditions, the introduction of grammatical speech pauses can help to maintain intelligibility [64].
Left temporal activation was evident during pauses that occurred within clauses but not during pauses at grammatical junctions.
This was not quite punctuation as we know it – Aristophanes saw his marks as representing simple pauses rather than grammatical boundaries – but the seed had been planted.
We then examined activity associated with pauses that occurred within clauses and pauses that occurred between grammatical junctions.
All but 20 minutes of the necessary audio was lost: precious minutes upon minutes of the crucial pauses, "ums," "aahs" and similar grammatical acne that made the first episodes (which ran a total of some eight stage hours) such distinctively funny, if at times maddening, viewing.
We started to associate the marks, not just with pauses, but with the actual grammatical units that were used to punctuate.
Grammatical errors were not corrected and participant intonation (pauses, emphasis) were noted in the transcripts.
"Many of the toddlers we studied made a small sound, a soft breath, or a pause, at exactly the place that a grammatical word would normally be uttered," Dye said in a statement.
