Table 1. The mean metric values for 3 languages from Arvaniti (2012)
Language | ΔC | %V | rPVI-C | nPVI-V | VarcoC | VarcoV |
English | 60.0 | 45.7 | 68.9 | 59.9 | 55.0 | 54.8 |
Korean | 50.5 | 49.2 | 56.7 | 54.3 | 54.8 | 58.3 |
Spanish | 46.6 | 49.5 | 53.7 | 49.1 | 50.2 | 53.3 |
ΔC, SD of consonantal intervals; %V, proportion of vocalic intervals; rPVI, raw Pairwise Variability Index; nPVI, normalized Pairwise Variability Index.