CONTINUITY OF SPEECH UTTERANCE, ITS DETERMINANTS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE.

This article focuses on the speech utterance and its determinants. In order to measure the word length of the individual phrases sandwiched between pauses, visual transformations of speech have to be obtained, transferring the sound impulses to paper, using a pen-recorder and the visual tracings have to be synchronised with the verbal content of the records. The relevance of level of intellectual activity to phrase length is also exemplified by the fact that the levelling influence of learning on individual differences shows itself more clearly in the descriptions than in the summaries.