Fig. 2: Syllable characteristics.

a Distribution of the duration of all 2888 syllables in the 220 sentences used for model simulations (mean syllable duration ~182 ms, median ~166 ms). b The histogram of the number of syllables per sentence (mean = 13.12; median = 12.5). c Distribution of syllable rates across sentences. The mean syllable rate is equal to 5.2 syllables per second (median is equal to 5.15 syllables per second).