She paused to light another cigarette and then went on with her account of the accident.
Pausing briefly to put on her jumper, Becky carried on along the path.
For each session, the subjects were told to continue entering a given text as quickly as possible, without pausing.
These suprasegmentals included those that define speech prosody (stress timing, peak alignment) and that characterize speech fluency (frequency and duration of pausing).
For example, the pausing seen in (ia) yields the slightly sloppy reading of (9c).