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Prosodic characteristics of prepausal words produced by patients with neurodegenerative disease. 神经退行性疾病患者预备词的韵律特征。

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-25

Sunghye Cho, Galit Agmon, Sanjana Shellikeri, Katheryn A Q Cousins, Sharon Ash, David J Irwin, Meredith Spindler, Andres F Deik, Lauren B Elman, Colin Quinn, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman, Naomi Nevler

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引用次数: 0

The Relationship between Prosodic Ability and Conversational Prosodic Entrainment. 韵律能力与会话韵律娱乐的关系。

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2020-157

Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier, Susana Terrazas, Steven Sandoval, Rachel Boren

{"title":"The Relationship between Prosodic Ability and Conversational Prosodic Entrainment.","authors":"Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier, Susana Terrazas, Steven Sandoval, Rachel Boren","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2020-157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2020-157","url":null,"abstract":"Conversational entrainment or alignment-the convergence of conversation partners over the course of a conversation in a variety of linguistic features-is a well-attested conversational phenomenon. The research on prosodic entrainment has shown correlations between prosodic entrainment and several social dimensions of rapport between conversation partners. However, little is known about how skill-level in the entrainment domain affects the ability to converge during a conversation. The goal of the current study was to investigate whether skill-level of a speaker in receptive and expressive word, sentence, and emotional prosody is correlated with the amount of prosodic entrainment contributed at the conversational level. Twenty native speakers of American English were paired into ten dyads of seven female/female and three female/male conversation pairs. Conversations for each pair were recorded and analyzed. Test scores measuring word, sentence, and emotional prosody were correlated with the amount of fundamental frequency entrainment during conversations. The results indicate that a negative correlation exists between expressive prosody skill and the amount of f0 entrainment contributed by a speaker. This suggests that speakers with better expressive prosodic skills at the word and sentence level entrain less to their conversation partners. Receptive prosody ability was not correlated with conversational prosodic entrainment.","PeriodicalId":92583,"journal":{"name":"Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.)","volume":"2020 ","pages":"769-773"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7394239/pdf/nihms-1609964.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38220718","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}

引用次数: 4

Coarticulatory effects on "the" production in child and adult speech. 儿童和成人言语中协同发音对“the”产生的影响。

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-203

Jeffrey E Kallay, Melissa A Redford

引用次数: 2

Prosodic Focus with Post-focus Compression in Lan-Yin Mandarin 兰音普通话的韵律焦点与后焦点压缩

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2016-06-03 DOI: 10.21437/SPEECHPROSODY.2016-70

Chen Shen, Yi Xu

引用次数: 4

Interactions of Tone and Intonation in Whispered Mandarin 普通话耳语中声调和语调的相互作用

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2016-06-03 DOI: 10.21437/SPEECHPROSODY.2016-20

Yi Xu, Li Jiao

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引用次数: 2

Do speakers show different F0 when they speak in different languages? The case of English, French and German? 说话者说不同的语言时是否表现出不同的F0 ?英语、法语和德语的例子?

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2016-06-03 DOI: 10.5167/UZH-126023

Sandra Schwab, J. Goldman

{"title":"Do speakers show different F0 when they speak in different languages? The case of English, French and German?","authors":"Sandra Schwab, J. Goldman","doi":"10.5167/UZH-126023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-126023","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the facts that the voice quality that allows the recognition of a speaker is characterized, among other features, by his/her fundamental frequency (F0) and that F0 may differ across languages, we investigated, in the present research, whether speakers show different F0 when they speak in two different languages. To do this, we carried out a study with a within-speaker design, in which long-term distributional (LTD) F0 level and span measures were examined in early or late bilingual speakers of English and French, of English and German, and of French and German. The results are the following: English-French speakers presented a lower F0 in English than in French. Along the same line, English-German speakers showed a lower F0 in English than in German. Moreover, they showed more variability in English than in German, especially when English was the speakers' mother tongue. Finally, French-German showed no differences in F0 level or span between both languages. These findings, which are partially in agreement with previous studies, not only highlight the advantage of using a within-speaker design in order to neutralize individual differences, but they also support the idea that the language spoken by the speaker is important for his/her identification.","PeriodicalId":92583,"journal":{"name":"Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.)","volume":"32 1","pages":"6-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77768891","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}

引用次数: 6

Word and phrasal stress disentangled: Pitch peak alignment in Frisian and Dutch declarative structures 单词和短语重音解耦:弗里斯兰语和荷兰语陈述句结构中的音调峰值对齐

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-95

Amber Nota, N. Hilton, M. Coler

{"title":"Word and phrasal stress disentangled: Pitch peak alignment in Frisian and Dutch declarative structures","authors":"Amber Nota, N. Hilton, M. Coler","doi":"10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-95","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates intonational pitch variations and pitch peak alignment in declarative sentences and is part of a larger study of declarative, interrogative and imperative grammatical constructions in the Frisian-Dutch contact situation. Frisian is a minority language spoken in the province of Fryslân in the Netherlands. Following Jun [19], we devised a reading task in which phrasal intonation could be analysed while cancelling out focus effects. The reading task contains nine sentences per language, each with three trisyllabic words (SVO): three with focus on the first word, three on the second, and three on the last. For each set of three sentences, lexical stress is equally divided across the syllables of the focused word. A subset of 20 of the study’s 40 bilingual Frisian-Dutch native speakers performed the task in Frisian and Dutch. Pitch measurements were conducted according to the Melodic Analysis of Speech method and adapted MAS+ method, allowing for fine-grained phonetic analysis. Results suggest both Frisian and the local Dutch variety show delays in pitch peak alignment when compared to previous research, with Frisian showing a stronger delay in focus realisation. Additionally, an age effect in Frisian pitch production suggests a possible change in the language.","PeriodicalId":92583,"journal":{"name":"Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.)","volume":"23 1","pages":"464-468"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87057946","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}

引用次数: 1

Who wants to be a blabbermouth? Prosodic cues to correct answers in the WWTBAM quiz show scenario 谁想成为一个长舌妇?在wwtham智力竞赛节目中提供正确答案的韵律提示

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.21437/SPEECHPROSODY.2016

Oliver Niebuhr

{"title":"Who wants to be a blabbermouth? Prosodic cues to correct answers in the WWTBAM quiz show scenario","authors":"Oliver Niebuhr","doi":"10.21437/SPEECHPROSODY.2016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/SPEECHPROSODY.2016","url":null,"abstract":"Innovating Speech Elicitation Techniques (INSPECT) is a line of research that aims to describe and quantify how different recording methods and materials affect speech production both inside and outside the laboratory. In addition, it aims to find new elicitation techniques or refine established techniques such that they provide a better control over speaking styles and/or target variables, particularly with respect to informal and expressive speech. Against this background, the present study investigates if and how typefaces of texts affect prosodic patterns in read speech. Analysing recordings of 24 Standard German native speakers showed that typeface has clear effects on the realization of prosodic patterns in read speech tasks. This includes local events like disfluencies, laughter, and breathing, as well as holistic characteristics of prosodic phrases like mean f0 and intensity levels, f0 ranges, f0 slopes, and speaking rates. For example, texts using sans-serif typefaces like Arial were produced very fluently. The opposite was true for typefaces like Forte and Times, which caused more expressive speech, laughter, and L* and H% intonations.","PeriodicalId":92583,"journal":{"name":"Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.)","volume":"16 7","pages":"994-998"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72395578","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}

引用次数: 1

Investigating the phonological status of the Initial Accent in French: an Event-Related Potentials study 调查法语重音的音系地位:一项事件相关电位研究

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2016-05-31 DOI: 10.21437/SPEECHPROSODY.2016-243

Noémie te Rietmolen, R. E. Yagoubi, R. Espesser, Cynthia Magnen, Corine Astésano

引用次数: 4

An analysis of the distribution of syllables in prosodic phrases of stress-timed and syllable-timed languages 重音计时语言和音节计时语言韵律短语音节分布分析

Speech prosody (Urbana, Ill.) Pub Date : 2016-05-31 DOI: 10.21437/SPEECHPROSODY.2016-11

J. Prakash, H. Murthy

引用次数: 4