A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
/reit/ n. 1. (also tempo) The pace of the delivery of speech.
Laver (1994:158) distinguishes between articulation rate and speaking rate. See Laver (1994:540-545) for a discussion with references. 2. A distinctive feature proposed in Ladefoged (1971) for treating contrasts of length, with the four values [rapid], [normal], [long] and [extra long], essentially identical to length in the Williamson feature system. This feature was abandoned in Ladefoged (1975).
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