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Matching Tempos
模仿語速
Research shows that people change the speed at which they speak to more closely match speech they have just heard. They don’t imitate each other exactly, but they get sort of pulled in one direction or another, depending on whether a person speaks slowly or quickly.
研究表明，人會變化語速，接近所聽到的語速。這并非刻意地模仿，但是，受說話者或快或慢語速的影響。
Scientists say that while it makes sense that musicians adapt their tempos, being that they are trained to do so, it’s not clear why speakers do it. After all, we don’t have to speak at the same tempo in order to understand each other.
科學家說，音樂人的語速會調節得和訓練時一樣，雖然原因尚不清楚。事實上，我們說話時，并不需要一樣的語速來聽懂談話。
What’s more is that when asked to repeat a sentence they heard from a recording, the subjects in this research inserted pauses in the same places where the recording they heard inserted pauses. They did this without being directed to mimictempo or pauses.
另外，受測者在聽過一段錄音，再重復錄音時，會在和錄音相同的地方停頓。雖然，研究人員并未要求受測者刻意模仿語速和停頓。
In order to better understand these findings and to test them out in real interactions, scientists intend to study unscripted, casual conversation.
科學家還會研究日常生活對話，證實現實對話是否也存在模仿語速，加深對調查結果的理解。
