Assessing respiratory contributions to f0 declination in German across varying speech tasks and respiratory demands

Fuchs, Susanne; Petrone, Caterina; Rochet-Capellan, Amélie; Reichel, Uwe D.; Koenig, Laura L.

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2015.04.002

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“…Concerning the cognitive‐linguistic demand manipulation, our results on the effects of phonological length on the duration of the pause before the Object constituent and on pitch declination slope are in line with previous studies on healthy individuals (Cooper & Sorensen, ; Fuchs et al ., , ; t'Hart, ; Thorsen, ), further supporting that the temporal and melodic characteristics of speech are indicative of speech production planning. Specifically, we found that the duration of the pause before the Object constituent (pause‐O) was longer before long constituents and shorter before short constituents.…”

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“…That is, they know in advance how long their utterance is going to be and they will thus systematically plan pitch declination in advance. The slope of pitch declination across an utterance is steeper for shorter utterances and shallower for longer utterances (Cooper & Sorensen, ; Fuchs et al ., ; Fuchs, Petrone, Rochet‐Capellan, Reichel, & Koenig, ). A schematization of the findings on healthy speakers for pause duration and pitch declination is illustrated in Figure .…”

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Effects of cognitive impairment on prosodic parameters of speech production planning in multiple sclerosis

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Moreau

Renié

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Journal of Neuropsychology

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Cognitive impairment (CI) affects 40-65% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). CI can have a negative impact on a patient's everyday activities, such as engaging in conversations. Speech production planning ability is crucial for successful verbal interactions and thus for preserving social and occupational skills. This study investigates the effect of cognitive-linguistic demand and CI on speech production planning in MS, as reflected in speech prosody. A secondary aim is to explore the clinical potential of prosodic features for the prediction of an individual's cognitive status in MS. A total of 45 subjects, that is 22 healthy controls (HC) and 23 patients in early stages of relapsing-remitting MS, underwent neuropsychological tests probing specific cognitive processes involved in speech production planning. All subjects also performed a read speech task, in which they had to read isolated sentences manipulated as for phonological length. Results show that the speech of MS patients with CI is mainly affected at the temporal level (articulation and speech rate, pause duration). Regression analyses further indicate that rate measures are correlated with working memory scores. In addition, linear discriminant analysis shows the ROC AUC of identifying MS patients with CI is 0.70 (95% confidence interval: 0.68-0.73). Our findings indicate that prosodic planning is deficient in patients with MS-CI and that the scope of planning depends on patients' cognitive abilities. We discuss how speech-based approaches could be used as an ecological method for the assessment and monitoring of CI in MS.

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Effects of cognitive impairment on prosodic parameters of speech production planning in multiple sclerosis

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“…Instead, a few other factors seem to be relevant here. First, research has indicated that prepared speech generally involves more anticipatory speech planning (e.g., Fuchs, et al, 2015), and in this way, when speakers read from a script, there is more in-advance processing at work, which could lead to more declination. Therefore, this could be one of the reasons for the smaller amount of declination in these spontaneous declaratives.…”

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Intonation of Persian declaratives: Read vs. spontaneous speech

Sadat‐Tehrani

2017

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This paper is an introductory investigation, comparing the intonation of Persian declaratives in read and spontaneous speech styles. The results indicate that 32% of the 254 spontaneous declaratives studied show one or more of the following intonational differences: a high or downstepped high tone at Intonational Phrase end, marking the incompleteness of the message; the existence of more pauses leading to a greater number of Intonational Phrases, pre-pause vowel lengthening, and pitch reset; a flatter contour and less pitch variation caused by a speaker's boredom or givenness of the information content; an initial high boundary tone resulted from a low degree of assertiveness.Keywords: intonation, prosody, Persian, read speech, spontaneous speech, pitch track IntroductionThis research reports some preliminary observations regarding the differences between the intonational properties of read and spontaneous speech in Persian. In studies that make use of read speech (also known as lab speech), the speaker is provided with the written version of the test materials and is possibly given some instructions as to how to read them. This type of speech is usually elicited in a laboratory setting and done for a specific linguistic purpose. Spontaneous speech refers to utterances produced without any external stimulus, e.g., a natural conversation carried out between two interlocutors. The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the intonational differences between the two styles. The research on Persian intonation done in the autosegmental-metrical (AM) framework of intonation (Bruce, 1977;Pierrehumbert, 1980;Ladd, 2008) has so far implemented controlled speech (Mahjani, 2003;Jun, et al., 2003;Sadat-Tehrani, 2007;Taheri and Xu, 2012;Hosseini, 2014;and Rahmani, Rietveld, and Gussenhoven, 2016), and to the best of my knowledge, there has not been any documentation on the distinguishing characteristics of read and spontaneous speech. This paper is an initial investigation of this issue.The present paper does not intend to argue for the use of spontaneous over read data; although the use of read speech has been criticized as unnatural and unrepresentative of real speech, it has its own merit. For instance, in a laboratory setting, the researcher has full control over many variables and determines their effect on intonation patterns, which is not the case when studying unscripted speech. Also, spontaneous data may not always contain all the structures that the researcher plans to investigate -for more arguments in favour of lab speech see Xu (2010). The view here, in line with that in Wagner, Trouvain, and Zimmerer (2015), is that making use of Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/11/18 2:06 PM

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“…RST is used in the diagnosis of the sleepless syndrome, and its purpose is to know if the upper body is inflamed by examining the signals of a patient's respiration. The two RST have been used previously in examining the differences in speech rhythm ( [7], [8]), the correlation between pitch and intensity ( [9]), gender differences ( [10]), the F0 declination ( [11]), and turn-taking in dialogue ( [12]), among other uses.…”

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Respiratory Control, Pauses, and Tonal Control in L1’s and L2’s Text Reading – A Pilot Study on Swedish and Japanese –

Isei-Jaakkola¹,

Nagano-Madsen²,

Ochi³

2018

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This paper reports the results of a pilot study, which examines the respiratory control exerted by chest and abdominal-muscles during the reading of a long text in the mother tongue (L1) and a targeted foreign language that is being learned (L2), with reference to syntax and prosody in Japanese and Swedish. Three datasets of read speech were obtained from Swedish speakers (SwL1), Swedish learners of Japanese (SwL2), and Japanese speakers (JL1). The results showed that the subjects used respiratory control differently while reading L1 texts and L2 texts, respectively. Both SwL1 and JL1 used chest and abdominal-muscles almost simultaneously, and the peaks of their muscular movements co-occurred at the onset of major syntactic units such as sentences and clauses. SwL2 used more chest muscles than abdominal-muscles, with muscular movements being more frequent, irregular, and small. There was no significant difference between JL1 and Swedish L1 and L2 in terms of the tonal control (pitch range). Some pitch peaks and pauses that appeared at the major syntactic boundaries coincided with the peaks of the muscular movements, but other pitch peaks and pauses did not. These results led to the hypothesis that the acquisition of intonation precedes that of respiratory control in L2 learning.

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Assessing respiratory contributions to f0 declination in German across varying speech tasks and respiratory demands

Cited by 18 publications

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Effects of cognitive impairment on prosodic parameters of speech production planning in multiple sclerosis

Effects of cognitive impairment on prosodic parameters of speech production planning in multiple sclerosis

Intonation of Persian declaratives: Read vs. spontaneous speech

Respiratory Control, Pauses, and Tonal Control in L1’s and L2’s Text Reading – A Pilot Study on Swedish and Japanese –

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