Madeleine Oakley, Auvi Tran, Ciana Paye, Emma Trudan, Timothy Turvey, George Blakey, David Zajac, Jeff Mielke, Laura Jacox
{"title":"DENTOFACIAL DISHARMONY PATIENTS' SIBILANTS DIFFER FROM CONTROLS' MORE IN SOURCE THAN FILTER PROPERTIES.","authors":"Madeleine Oakley, Auvi Tran, Ciana Paye, Emma Trudan, Timothy Turvey, George Blakey, David Zajac, Jeff Mielke, Laura Jacox","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study uses multitaper spectral analysis to examine the differences in consonants produced by patients who present with different dentofacial disharmonies (DFD) including severe overbites (Class II), underbites (Class III) and anterior open bites. Previous studies have found that patients with these malocclusion types all produce sibilants and plosives with increased spectral center of gravity and increased spectral spread relative to controls. This result is puzzling since some DFD groups differ from controls in opposite ways. To better understand the articulatory basis of these differences, we apply several spectral shape measures and find that all groups of DFD patients produce /s ʃ t tʃ/ with mid-frequency spectral peaks that are less prominent than those of the control group, but peak frequency measures are largely the same across all groups. This indicates that the DFD patients differ more in sibilant noise source than front cavity size.<sup>1</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"20 ","pages":"823-827"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10798805/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139514514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marisha Speights Atkins, Suzanne E Boyce, Joel MacAuslan, Noah Silbert
{"title":"Computer-Assisted Syllable Complexity Analysis of Continuous Speech as a Measure of Child Speech Disorders.","authors":"Marisha Speights Atkins, Suzanne E Boyce, Joel MacAuslan, Noah Silbert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A common indicator of speech production disorders in children is a reduced ability to articulate complex syllables. Clinical studies of syllabic complexity of child speech have traditionally relied on phonetic transcription by trained listeners to characterize deviations in phonotatic structure. The labor-intensive nature of transcribing, segmenting, labeling, and hand-counting syllables has limited clinical analysis of large samples of continuous speech. In this paper, we discuss the use of a computer-assisted method, Automatic Syllabic Cluster Analysis, for broad transcription, segmentation, and counting syllabic units as a means for fast analysis of differences in speech precision when comparing children with and without speech-related disorders. Findings show that the number of syllabic clusters per utterance is a significant indicator of speech disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"2019 ","pages":"1054-1058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11520931/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142549434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perceptual Contribution of Consonants and Vowels to Sentence Recognition: Effect of Dialect Variation in American English.","authors":"Daniel Fogerty","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In background noise, the amplitude fluctuations of speech commonly provide for momentary glimpses of high intensity portions of speech, predominantly from vowels. Previous investigations have provided glimpses of consonants or vowels to determine the perceptual contribution of different speech acoustics to sentence intelligibility. The present study investigated the consistency of perceptual contributions across eight American English dialects for a group of listeners from the southern United States. Results demonstrated that sentences preserving predominant vowel acoustics were consistently more intelligible across dialects for all participants. The significant contribution of vowels does not appear dependent on familiarity with properties of dialectal variation but may represent the preservation of more general acoustic cues important for sentence recognition. Acoustic analyses of temporal amplitude modulation suggest important cues present during vowels and highlight gradient differences across dialects associated with intelligibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"2019 ","pages":"3240-3244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10152988/pdf/nihms-1895496.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9431247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LISTENER PREFERENCE IS FOR REDUCED DETERMINERS THAT ANTICIPATE THE FOLLOWING NOUN.","authors":"Phil J Howson, Melissa A Redford","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the effects of determiner reduction and coarticulation on the perceived naturalness of resynthesized <i>shock-the-geek</i> (<i>V-the-N)</i> sequences. The determiner, equally spaced between monosyllabic <i>V</i> and <i>N</i>, was manipulated in 3 experiments along a 7-step continuum: (1) duration varied from 0.25x the original duration to 4x this duration; (2) amplitude varied from 55 dB to 85 dB; (3) schwa formants varied from completely overlapped with the vowel in <i>V</i> to completely overlapped with the vowel in <i>N</i>. Listeners rated <i>V-the-N</i> sequences with reduced duration and intensity and more anticipatory coarticulation more favourably than sequences with increased duration and intensity and more preservatory coarticulation. These results are consistent with a listener preference for the production of supralexical chunks that adhere to morphosyntactic rather than metrical structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"2019 ","pages":"378-382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6818738/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141731690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CHARACTERIZING THE COORDINATION OF SPEECH PRODUCTION AND BREATHING.","authors":"Jeffrey Kallay, U. Mayr, Melissa A. Redford","doi":"10.1121/1.5067628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5067628","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have concluded that breath intake patterns during speech emerge as a function of planning processes. Little work has tested for similar effects of respiratory recovery on these patterns. Moreover, previous work has relied on one-by-one elicitation of read sentences which incorporates a direct cue to upcoming length, allowing for anticipatory effects to emerge but prohibiting a test of preceding material on intakes. The current study investigated the relative influences of recovery and anticipatory factors on breath intakes in a connected speech task that better approximates spontaneous production. Participants (N = 6) were asked to recite a passage of 20 unrelated sentences from memory. Results revealed a significant effect of preceding utterance length on presence of breath intakes during pauses, but not of following utterance length. It is concluded that respiratory recovery drives breath intakes in connected speech.","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"65 1","pages":"1412-1416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76632611","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":"VERBAL AND SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY LOAD HAVE SIMILARLY MINIMAL EFFECTS ON SPEECH PRODUCTION.","authors":"Ogyoung Lee, Melissa A Redford","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The goal of the present study was to test the effects of working memory on speech production. Twenty American-English speaking adults produced syntactically complex sentences in tasks that taxed either verbal or spatial working memory. Sentences spoken under load were produced with more errors, fewer prosodic breaks, and at faster rates than sentence produced in the control conditions, but other acoustic correlates of rhythm and intonation did not change. Verbal and spatial working memory had very similar effects on production, suggesting that the different span tasks used to tax working memory merely shifted speakers' attention away from the act of speaking. This finding runs contra the hypothesis of incremental phonological/phonetic encoding, which predicts the manipulation of information in <i>verbal</i> working memory during speech production.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"18 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593506/pdf/nihms-703101.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34138690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influences of Segmental Content on the Perception of Word Duration: A First Approach towards a New Perceptual Model of Speech Rhythm","authors":"V. Dellwo, Lea Hagmann","doi":"10.5167/UZH-49270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-49270","url":null,"abstract":"The present research tested the segmental influences on the perception of monosyllabic word durations. 12 listeners of Swiss-German heard pairs of speech and non-speech sounds (monosyllabic words and rectangular-gated sinusoids). They were asked to change the duration of the second sound so that it would match the duration of the first one. Results showed that the Weber Fraction (∆T/T) for tones is normally distributed around 0 (perfect alignment) while the Weber Fraction for different monosyllabic word pairs can vary significantly from this. In particular quantitative vowel length in contrastive position was found to have an effect on the perception of word duration. Possible implications for models of speech rhythm are discussed.","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"43 1","pages":"560-563"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81867191","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":"'Read Speech Normalization' (RSN): A Method to Study Prosodic Variability in Spontaneous Speech","authors":"Lena Zipp, V. Dellwo","doi":"10.5167/UZH-49272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-49272","url":null,"abstract":"A method, the ‘read speech normalization’ method (RSN), is proposed by which the variability of prosodic parameters (rhythmic durational and intonation) can be compared across different conditions of spontaneous speech. In an experiment using a customized variety of the map task method, spontaneous speech was elicited from two speakers of English in a formal and an informal situation. Sentences from the spontaneously spoken formal and informal situations were afterwards read by the same speakers. The formal and informal conditions were then compared in terms of their differences to the read speech version (read speech normalization). Results showed that meaningful differences could be observed between formal and informal speech from the read speech normalized sentences that could not be obtained by comparing the two spontaneous speech conditions directly.","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"43 1","pages":"2328-2331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79923673","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":"An Acoustic Analysis of Palatal Obstruents in Two Romance Varieties","authors":"Stephan Schmid","doi":"10.5167/UZH-49273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-49273","url":null,"abstract":"Palatal stops and affricates are relatively rare in the world’s languages, compared to velar stops and postalveolar affricates. In some languages, palatal stops underwent a diachronic shift and merged with postalveolar affricates. This study undertakes a spectral analysis of palatal stops in two Romance varieties, i.e. the dialect of San Giovanni in Fiore (spoken in a small town of Calabria, southern Italy) and Vallader, a variety of Romansh (spoken in the lower Engadine, Switzerland). The results indicate that the acoustic contrast between postalveolar and palatal obstruents is less robust in Vallader than in Sangiovannese, where in turn inter-speaker differences are more sizeable.","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"48 1","pages":"1762-1765"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87934711","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":"REPRODUCING SINGLETONS AND FAKE GEMINATES.","authors":"Melissa A Redford, Grace E Oh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thirty-two native American-English speaking children and adults reliably reproduced a non-contrastive segmental length distinction encoded in a set of monomorphemic nonce words. However, participants were unable to explicitly identify the contrast in a same/different judgment task. The results support the view that grammatically irrelevant, lexically specific temporal patterns can be learned and are represented in the lexicon.</p>","PeriodicalId":74531,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences","volume":"2011 ","pages":"1674-1677"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4474490/pdf/nihms696990.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33288946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}