Comments on "Temporal interactions within a phrase and sentence context" (J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 56, 1258-1265 (1974)).

The interpretation given in the subject article to the incidence of negative correlations between the durations of adjacent speech segments, viz., that they show evidence of temporal compensation, is criticized. It is shown that the negative correlations are most likely due to measurement error and to the author’s normalization of the duration of his test utterances.Subject Classification: [43]70.40, [43]70.70, [43]70.20.