Why Some Languages Sound Faster Than Others

Re:Why Some Languages Sound Faster Than Others by mootothemax on Friday September 09, 2011 @03:16AM (#2977230)

I'd also like to know about reading speed; I'm convinced that subtitles in Polish are displayed for mere microseconds, and the same rapid-fire display is true for various dot-matrix-type signs.

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Re:Why Some Languages Sound Faster Than Others by morganls on Friday September 09, 2011 @03:51AM (#2977309)

Don't know about polish, but lots of studies discuss this with chinese vs. english. One example:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/6r7k345387j14653/

"The reading rates were about 385 equivalent words per minute for Chinese and 380 words per minute for English for the same scientific textual material (Table 1)"

Probably worth digging more to see if the consensus has changed since then. That one was also done with scientific reading material, so might have limited applicability.

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