Speech information rates:

LANGUAGE	INFORMATION DENSITY	SYLLABIC RATE	INFORMATION RATE
	IDL	(#syl/sec)
English	0.91 (± 0.04)	6.19 (± 0.16)	1.08 (± 0.08)
French	0.74 (± 0.04)	7.18 (± 0.12)	0.99 (± 0.09)
German	0.79 (± 0.03)	5.97 (± 0.19)	0.90 (± 0.07)
Italian	0.72 (± 0.04)	6.99 (± 0.23)	0.96 (± 0.10)
Japanese	0.49 (± 0.02)	7.84 (± 0.09)	0.74 (± 0.06)
Mandarin	0.94 (± 0.04)	5.18 (± 0.15)	0.94 (± 0.08)
Spanish	0.63 (± 0.02)	7.82 (± 0.16)	0.98 (± 0.07)
Vietnamese	1 (reference)	5.22 (± 0.08)	1 (reference)