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just listen to the instructions that I

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gave you and I realized that I told you

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the upside down calculation for

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syllables per second I told you to take

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the duration of the sentence and divide

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it by the number of syllables 12 that'll

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actually give you not syllables per

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second that'll give you the average

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duration of a syllable in seconds so

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what you want to do and I've edited the

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instructions for the assignment so it's

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clear you want to take um 12 the number

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of syllables in the sentence and divide

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it by the duration of the sentence that

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will give you rate of speech and

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syllables per second I mean they're just

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the inverse of each other right I mean

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they're mathematically completely

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derivable um but syllables per second is

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the conventional way that we describe

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rate of speech and speech language

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pathology so um making sure that that

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calculation is done conventionally is

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kind of important so apologies um

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apologies