“…Barik's study examined a total of 11 suprasegmental parameters in a variety of speech modes and found, in addition, that in spontaneous speech, pause duration was greater and speech rate was faster than in read speech. Mean F,, values have been found to be significantly higher in speech read aloud compared to spontaneous speech (Snidecor, 1943;Mysak, 1959;Hollien & Jackson, 1973;Johns-Lewis, 1986). Brown, Currie and Kenworthy (1980, p. 17) discuss differences between the tasks of assigning an intonation contour to a read text and to spontaneous speech, pointing out that 'claims made about intonation on the basis of the study of texts read aloud, should be subject to the most careful scrutiny if there is any suggestion that these will correctly characterise the intonation of spontaneous speech'.…”