"Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms"
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Summary:
Several people have asked me about this paper — Maya Inbar, Eitan Grossman, and Eyelet Landau, "A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms", PNAS 8/19/2025: Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech [W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking […]