Abstract
This study sought to determine if the syntactic location of a speech pause might affect its apparent duration. Ss listened to a continuous discourse, being required to attend to its content as well as to make judgments, now and then, as to the duration of particular pauses. For pauses all actually of the same length, it was found that those falling at a minor within-sentence break, as syntactically defined, were characteristically judged to be longer than those falling at a major within-sentence break or at a between-sentence break, with no difference between the two latter cases. These results, obtained in a perceptual task involving a minimum of extraordinary or disruptive features, are taken as evidence for the power of syntactic variables in affecting attention during listening to speech.
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