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Creaky voice and utterance fluency measures in predicting fluency and oral proficiency of spontaneous L2 Finnish 沙哑声音和话语流畅性测量对自发性第二语言芬兰语流畅性和口语熟练程度的预测

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-158

Heini Kallio, Rosa Suviranta, M. Kuronen, Anna von Zansen

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Can speech rate transfer between languages? Evidence from Japanese and Mandarin Chinese 语言之间的语速可以传递吗?来自日语和普通话的证据

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-70

Zhiqiang Zhu, P. Mok

{"title":"Can speech rate transfer between languages? Evidence from Japanese and Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Zhiqiang Zhu, P. Mok","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-70","url":null,"abstract":"Whether speech rate can transfer between languages with distinctive speech rates is an understudied issue. Impressionistically, Japanese is faster than Mandarin Chinese. We investigated the speech rate of native Japanese and Mandarin speakers, advanced L2 learners and simultaneous bilinguals respectively. Nine native Beijing Mandarin speakers, five native Japanese speakers, thirteen advanced L1 Japanese learners of Mandarin and eleven Japanese-Mandarin simultaneous bilinguals participated in a passage reading task and a spontaneous speech task. The comparison between Japanese and Mandarin by native Mandarin speakers and native Japanese speakers confirmed that the speech rate of native Japanese was faster than that of Mandarin. Comparison between the speech rate of Japanese and Mandarin by advanced Japanese learners and simultaneous bilinguals showed that both groups produced Japanese constantly faster than their Mandarin. Both advanced Japanese learners and simultaneous bilinguals produced Japanese similarly as native Japanese speakers did. However, the Mandarin speech rate by advanced Japanese learners was significantly slower than that of native Mandarin speakers, while the Mandarin speech rate between simultaneous bilinguals and native Mandarin speakers remained non-significant. The findings challenge previous proposals that speech rate transfer could happen at a language level. Moreover, simultaneous bilinguals showed an advantage over advanced L2 learners in speech rate mastery.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123983734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Speaking Rate in 3-4-Year-Old Children: Its Correlation with Gesture Rate and Word Learning 3-4岁儿童说话速率与手势速率和词汇学习的关系

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-48

Zhenyang Xi, Yan Gu, G. Vigliocco

{"title":"Speaking Rate in 3-4-Year-Old Children: Its Correlation with Gesture Rate and Word Learning","authors":"Zhenyang Xi, Yan Gu, G. Vigliocco","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-48","url":null,"abstract":"Past research has shown that while speaking children before 3-year-old often use gesture to supplement speech while not using gesture as an integrated system with speech, and that the relationship between speech and gesture may relate to vocabulary development. However, such a relationship is unknown in 3-4-year-old children, a period in which we can capture key developmental changes from using gestures alone to using them along with speech. Using a new corpus of semi-naturalistic interaction between caregivers and their 3-4-year-old children (ECOLANG Corpus), this study investigates (1) the effect of age on children’s speaking and gesture rate, (2) the relationship between speaking and gesture rates and (3) their correlation with word learning. Specifically, we studied speaking and gesture rates of 32 English-speaking children while talking with their caregivers about sets of pre-selected toys. The children completed a vocabulary test at the time of the experiment and one year later. Results show that there was no effect of age on speaking and gesture rates at this age range, but we found that children with a fast speaking rate also had a higher gesture rate. Additionally, neither speaking rate nor gesture rate correlates with word. Thus, our findings show that by this age, children use gestures that are integrated with speech and their relationship is no longer a predictor of vocabulary learning. We speculate that the transition in the relationship is mainly a result of enhanced conceptual representation ability.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128415797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Interpretation of prosodically marked focus in cochlear implant-simulated speech by non-native listeners 非母语听者对人工耳蜗模拟语音中韵律标记焦点的解读

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-15

Marita K Everhardt, A. Sarampalis, M. Coler, D. Başkent, W. Lowie

{"title":"Interpretation of prosodically marked focus in cochlear implant-simulated speech by non-native listeners","authors":"Marita K Everhardt, A. Sarampalis, M. Coler, D. Başkent, W. Lowie","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-15","url":null,"abstract":"This study assesses how a cochlear implant (CI) simulation inﬂuences the interpretation of prosodically marked linguistic focus in a non-native language. In an online experiment, two groups of normal-hearing native Dutch learners of English of different ages (12–14 year-old adolescents vs. 18 + year-old adults) and with different proﬁciency levels in English (A2 vs. B2/C1) were asked to listen to CI-simulated and non-CI-simulated English sentences differing in prosodically marked focus and indicate which of four possible context questions the speaker answered. Results show that, as expected, focus interpretation is signiﬁcantly less accurate in the CI-simulated condition compared to the non-CI-simulated condition and that more proﬁcient non-native listeners outperform less proﬁcient non-native listeners. However, there was no interaction between the inﬂuence of the spectro-temporal degradation of the CI-simulated speech signal and that of the English proﬁciency level of the non-native listeners, suggesting that less proﬁcient nonnative listeners are not more strongly affected by the spectro-temporal degradation of an electric speech signal than more proﬁcient non-native listeners.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116823430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Articulatory properties of period-doubled voice in Mandarin 汉语重音的发音特性

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-111

Yaqian Huang

{"title":"Articulatory properties of period-doubled voice in Mandarin","authors":"Yaqian Huang","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-111","url":null,"abstract":"Period-doubled phonation is a type of creaky voice that contains two alternating periods. By presenting data from Mandarin Chinese read speech recordings, this study probes the articulatory properties of period-doubled phonation and its tonal distribution based on time-domain measures using electroglottography (EGG). Period doubling (PD) was found across all the tones (T3: 43% > T2 > T4 > T1: 11%), which was more prevalent than vocal fry, found mainly in T3 (48%) and T2 (43%), and only sporadically in T4 (7%) and T1 (2%). We calculated the two alternating glottal periods in PD, and they exhibited a ratio close to 3:2 or 2:1. The two pulses also alternated between higher and lower amplitudes with a mean ratio approximating 2 or 1.6. Women tended to produce more PD than men. Moreover, the contact quotient of PD, measured via EGG using the hybrid method, was around 0.5, similar to modal voice (0.54) and smaller than that of vocal fry (0.74), implying a more balanced opening and contact phase during phonation. Alternation of contact quotient and symmetry quotient was also seen in a few samples, suggesting that PD is likely articulated through two alternating pulses with distinct voice qualities and pitches.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114595145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Schwa deletion and perceived tempo in English 英语弱读音缺失与节奏感知

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-96

L. Plug, R. Lennon, Rachel Smith

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Melodic perception skills predict Catalan speakers’ imitation abilities of unfamiliar languages 旋律感知技能可以预测加泰罗尼亚语使用者对陌生语言的模仿能力

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-178

Peng Li, Yuan Zhang, Xianqiang Fu, Florence Baills, P. Prieto

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Articulation rate in psychotherapeutic dialogues for depression: patients and therapists 抑郁症心理治疗对话中的发音率:患者和治疗师

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-27

Laurence White, H. Grimes

{"title":"Articulation rate in psychotherapeutic dialogues for depression: patients and therapists","authors":"Laurence White, H. Grimes","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-27","url":null,"abstract":"Prosodic features anecdotally associated with the speech of people with clinical depression include slower rate, lower pitch range and reduced loudness, but there is a significant degree of contradiction in the literature regarding depressed prosody. This complex picture reflects the heterogeneity of depression aetiology, symptomatology and prognosis. It is also likely to be influenced by elicitation methods, in particular, whether natural dialogue contexts are employed and whether the interlocutor’s prosody is also considered. We analysed 40 patient-therapist dialogues from the first and last of 29 weekly sessions of a behavioural therapy for refractory depression, sampling early and late in both sessions. Across all dialogues, we found that therapists spoke faster than patients, as expected, but in female-female therapist-patient dialogues (the majority of our sample), patients’ articulation rate increased substantially over the first session. Moreover, and contrary to expectations, there was a positive correlation between articulation rate and assessed depression severity (PHQ-9 scale) in the final therapy session, also evident in therapists’ speech for female-female dialogues. We suggest that this may reflect features of anxiety in speakers with ongoing depression and possibly also personality characteristics. We also consider evidence for prosodic convergence between patients and therapists.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128173137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Building bridges: The role of prosody in Mandarin-speaking adults' and children's anaphora resolution 搭建桥梁:韵律在汉语成人和儿童的回指消解中的作用

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-16

Kexin Du, S. Avrutin, Aoju Chen

{"title":"Building bridges: The role of prosody in Mandarin-speaking adults' and children's anaphora resolution","authors":"Kexin Du, S. Avrutin, Aoju Chen","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-16","url":null,"abstract":"Past research on the role of prosody in reference is primarily concerned with how adults and children use prosodic cues to signal accessibility change from givenness to newness of the same noun phrase. This study explores the role of prosody in the referential dependencies between one antecedent noun-phrase and one reflexive anaphor ‘zi-ji’ (oneself) in Mandarin-speaking adults and children. In sentences like “Boris dreamed that Miffy painted ‘zi-ji’”, ‘zi-ji’ can establish two types of anaphor-antecedent dependencies: (1) a local dependency where ‘zi-ji’ refers to Miffy, (2) a non-local dependency where ‘zi-ji’ refers to Boris. Such sentences were elicited in both interpretations from Mandarin-speaking adults and 6 to 10-year-olds in a picture-matching game. Duration analysis on ‘zi-ji’ shows that adults produced ‘zi-ji’ with a longer duration in the non-local dependency condition than in the local dependency condition. This result can be explained by the economy hierarchy model, whereby the local antecedent made more accessible by the locality constraint is preferred, thus necessitating the use of more prosodic prominence to mark the less accessible non-local antecedent. This pattern was not found in children’s production, suggesting prolonged acquisition of using prosody to build anaphor-antecedent dependencies for ‘zi-ji’.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126719239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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ha-HA-hha? Intensity and voice quality characteristics of laughter ha-HA-hha吗?笑声的强度和音质特征

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-114

Bogdan Ludusan, P. Wagner

{"title":"ha-HA-hha? Intensity and voice quality characteristics of laughter","authors":"Bogdan Ludusan, P. Wagner","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-114","url":null,"abstract":"Laughter is one of the most widely-encountered paralinguis-tic phenomena in human interaction and it has been studied from different perspectives throughout the years, including its acoustic-prosodic realization. However, previous studies have mostly focused on fundamental frequency and duration measures, with other prosodic features being less studied. We ex-amine here the acoustic marking of laughter in terms of intensity and voice quality characteristics, by using a corpus of spontaneous conversations. We operationalized the two cues by means of the root-mean-square energy and the cepstral peak prominence, respectively. Examining laughs, speech-laughs and speech instances at two different levels (that of the entire event and at the syllable nucleus level) we observed the least regular phonation for laughs and the most regular one for speech, while intensity was the highest for speech-laughs, followed by laughter and the lowest for speech. Using mixed effect models we determined that all three vocalization classes differ signiﬁcantly from one another, in terms of both acoustic cues. Moreover, an interesting effect of syllable position was seen for laughter, with phonation becoming more regular for later syllables.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123555313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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