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Linguists have discovered that humans vary their speech rate within sentences across all languages. For example, most people slow their speech down before saying nouns.

And, let’s be clear about stereotypes:

There is no inherent connection between the rate of speech and levels of intelligence, truthfulness or kindness. Language use differs for all sorts of reasons, and differences are not deficiencies.

https://theconversation.com/why-somepeopletalkveryfast-and-others-take-their-time-despite-stereotypes-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-intelligence-210614

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