{"title":"Evaluating speech samples designed for the Voice Profile Analysis Scheme for Brazilian Portuguese (BP-VPAS)","authors":"Z. Camargo, S. Madureira, L. C. Rusilo","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0012/000181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0012/000181","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims at evaluating a corpus designed for voice quality settings analysis (Laver, 1980). It addresses the role of keyspeech segments for the identification of voice quality settings. The corpus, recorded by 60 speakers, contained repetitions of 10 keyspeech sentences, and semi-spontaneous speech samples. These samples were evaluated by two expert subjects according to the BP-VPAS Profile (Camargo, Madureira, 2008). These data were analyzed by means of an artificial neural network and statistically by multiple regression analysis. The data reinforce the importance of the description of voice quality based on the phonetic model and the relevant role of keyspeech segments.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124660415","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}
Paraskevi Mavroudi, Evelina Leivada, Anna Epistithiou
{"title":"Acquisition of lightverbhood: evidence from Cypriot Greek","authors":"Paraskevi Mavroudi, Evelina Leivada, Anna Epistithiou","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0029/000149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0029/000149","url":null,"abstract":"This experiment investigates the acquisition of (true) light verb constructions (in the sense of Kearns 1988/2002) as well as other constructions that involve a light verb in Cypriot Greek. Focusing on the acquisition of the light verb kamno ‘do/make’, this study aims to identify (i) whether light verb constructions are more frequent in Cypriot Greek than in Standard Modern Greek, (ii) what the age of acquisition is for true light verb constructions, and (iii) how sensitive to (light verb) priming children of different ages are in a picture-based elicitation task; in addition, this research tests whether adults can be sensitive enough to priming so as to reproduce light verb constructions that are inexistent in Cypriot Greek.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127510667","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}
G. Droua-Hamdani, S. Selouani, M. Boudraa, W. Cichocki
{"title":"Algerian Arabic rhythm classification","authors":"G. Droua-Hamdani, S. Selouani, M. Boudraa, W. Cichocki","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0010/000130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0010/000130","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates speech timing in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) of Algerian speakers in order to situate their Arabic language between stressed-timed and syllable-timed languages. We extracted first all duration measurements from recordings taken from sound voice bank ALGASD (ALGerian Arabic Speech Database) and after computed durations with using recently interesting rhythmic approaches.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131963929","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}
{"title":"Action and object naming in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment","authors":"M. Kambanaros, K. Grohmann, E. Theodorou","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0019/000139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0019/000139","url":null,"abstract":"Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a severe limitation in language ability in the absence of other factors that typically accompany language problems (e.g., hearing impairment, low non-verbal IQ, neurological damage). SLI is the most common and most studied type of developmental language disorder, yet research comparing biand monolingual development is surprisingly lacking, leaving potential implications of bilingualism for children with language disabilities an under-explored area. It is known that monolingual children with SLI are less accurate at naming pictures of objects than age-matched peers with typical language development (TLD), strongly suggesting that difficulties with lexical access are related to a breakdown at the level of the phonological word form, which the present study clearly support.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131249448","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}
{"title":"Importing mental patterns of coherence as a comprehension strategy: a case study of errors in reference assignment","authors":"Pilar Alonso","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0003/000123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0003/000123","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the interface between structural coherence, which builds on the formal and conceptual conventions of discourse, and cognitive coherence, which develops around the internal and external aspects of communication (Pasquier and Chaib-draa 2005). More specifically, the focus is on the cognitive coherence strategies set forth by discourse receivers when they encounter comprehension problems, especially those caused by non-standard uses in structural coherence. Drawing from studies on coherence and comprehension (Giora 1997; Wilson and Matsui 2000; Hobbs 2004), the paper discusses a case study which shows how error in reference assignment may encourage readers to import mental patterns of coherence, external to the discourse, as a repair strategy, thus prioritizing structural adjacency and their search for relevance over comprehension.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"10 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128837375","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}
{"title":"Perceptual cues for sentence intonation in Greek","authors":"Anthi Chaida","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0006/000126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0006/000126","url":null,"abstract":"This is a study of intonational cues for the perception of statements and polar questions in Greek. A two-part experiment was conducted with synthetic stimuli with manipulated intonation targets in stress groups, from statement to question and vice versa. According to the results, the critical perceptual cue is the boundary tone, which led listeners to identify stimuli as the reverse sentence type (81-100%). However, the perception of intonational contrasts may be based on holistic contours.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"439 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115937358","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}
{"title":"Narratives in Cypriot Greek mono- and bilingual children with SLI","authors":"E. Theodorou, K. Grohmann","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0047/000167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0047/000167","url":null,"abstract":"Narrative ability is one of the most promising ways to assess communicative competence in children: Coordination of lexical, morphosyntactic, phonological, and pragmatic elements is needed to produce narrations. Narratives might even serve as a diagnostic tool for Specific Language Impairment, since children with Specific Language Impairment are reported to have difficulties producing (oral) narratives. Different approaches are available for narrative analysis. In the present study, the Renfrew Bus Story Test was used to investigate narrative ability in monoand bilingual children aged between 5 and 10 years with typical and impaired language development acquiring Cypriot Greek. The findings suggest that narratives can indeed be a useful tool to identify and assess language-impaired children.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127598884","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}
{"title":"The terminal contour of Italian semi-spontaneous instructions","authors":"D. Russo","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0015/000184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0015/000184","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to analyze the intonative features of instructions in semispontaneous Italian, with particular regard to their terminal contour, in order to understand which is its semantic importance and, from this point of view, what is the nature of relation between intonation and modality.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130284608","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}
M. Fourakis, Heather Karlsson, Christie Tilkens, L. Shriberg
{"title":"Acoustic correlates of nasopharyngeal resonance","authors":"M. Fourakis, Heather Karlsson, Christie Tilkens, L. Shriberg","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0011/000131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0011/000131","url":null,"abstract":"Measurements of F1 and F2 were made for the four corner vowels produced by typically-developing adolescents and adolescents with Fragile X and Down syndromes. The two high vowels were produced with lower F2 frequencies by the Fragile X and Down syndrome groups than the group of typically developing persons. This is consistent with a hypothesized backing of the tongue.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"465 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124370008","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}
{"title":"The validity of some acoustic measures to predict voice quality settings: trends between acoustic and perceptual correlates of voice quality","authors":"L. C. Rusilo, Z. Camargo, S. Madureira","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0028/000197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0028/000197","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims at investigating the power of acoustic measures to predict voice quality settings detected perceptually. The corpus was composed by speech samples recorded by 60 subjects. The audio samples were analyzed in PRAAT by means of the SG Expression Evaluator Script (Barbosa, 2009), which extracts f0 and f0 first derivate, intensity, spectral tilt and long-term average spectrum measures. The same samples were perceptually evaluated by means of the Voice Profile Analysis Scheme for Brazilian Portuguese (BP-VPAS). The methodological procedures made it possible to identify the clusters related to the acoustic measures group and that of the perceptual judgement results (cluster analysis) as well as to correlate these two groups (canonic correlation analysis).","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134520065","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}