Do Conversational Partners Entrain on Articulatory Precision?

Lubold, Nichola; Borrie, Stephanie A.; Barrett, Tyson S.; Willi, Megan M.; Berisha, Visar

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2019-1786

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“…Precision-Precision, referred to articulatory precision, was defined as how clearly a person articulates their spoken productions (Lubold et al 2019). Raters were asked to rate precision based on the degree to which the speaker accurately produced the sounds in the words.…”

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Exploring the Impact of Two Feedback Types on Speech Intelligibility, Precision, and Naturalness

Bislick

Thakar²,

Madden

2023

Semin Speech Lang

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This pilot study examined the impact of feedback type on learning a novel speech task, as measured by listener ratings, and will inform procedures for future investigations within a larger sample size. Twenty-four native monolingual English-speaking college-aged adults participated in a single training session to learn novel Hindi phrases. Participants were randomly placed into one of three feedback groups: knowledge of performance (KP), knowledge of results (KR), or a combined KP + KR condition. Participant performance was assessed at 1 day and 1 week post-training. Participant responses were audio recorded and judged for intelligibility, precision, and naturalness by native Hindi speakers, blind to the feedback conditions, via rating scales. At 2 days post-training, participants in the KP and KP + KR feedback conditions were rated as performing better than participants in the KR condition on all three perceptual measures. At 1 week post-training, participants in the KP feedback condition were judged to be superior across all three perceptual measures. Preliminary findings suggest that augmented feedback enhances learning, especially when skills are considered novel and learners are unable to rely on their own internal feedback. These results may have implications for the application of motor learning principles into clinical practice for persons with motor speech disorders.

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Exploring the Impact of Two Feedback Types on Speech Intelligibility, Precision, and Naturalness

Bislick

Thakar²,

Madden

2023

Semin Speech Lang

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Conversational Coordination of Articulation Responds to Context: A Clinical Test Case With Traumatic Brain Injury

Borrie

Wynn

Berisha

et al. 2020

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose Coordination of communicative behavior supports shared understanding in conversation. The current study brings together analysis of two speech coordination strategies, entrainment and compensation of articulation, in a preliminary investigation into whether strategy organization is shaped by a challenging communicative context—conversing with a person who has a communication disorder. Method As an initial clinical test case, an automated measure of articulatory precision was analyzed in a corpus of spoken dialogue, where a confederate conversed with participants with traumatic brain injury ( n = 28) and participants with no brain injury ( n = 48). Results Overall, the confederate engaged in significant entrainment and high compensation (hyperarticulation) in conversations with participants with traumatic brain injury relative to significant entrainment and low compensation (hypoarticulation) in conversations with participants with no brain injury. Furthermore, the confederate's articulatory precision changed over the course of the conversations. Conclusions Findings suggest that the organization of conversational coordination is sensitive to context, supporting synergistic models of spoken dialogue. While corpus limitations are acknowledged, these initial results point to differences in the way in which speech strategies are realized in challenging communicative contexts, highlighting a viable and important target for investigation with clinical populations. A framework for investigating speech coordination strategies in tandem and ideas for advancing this line of inquiry serve as key contributions of this work.

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Healthy Communication Partners Modify Their Speech When Conversing With Individuals With Parkinson's Disease

Lubold

Willi

Borrie

et al. 2021

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose For individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), conversational interactions can be challenging. Efforts to improve the success of these interactions have largely fallen on the individual with PD. Successful communication, however, involves contributions from both the individual with PD and their communication partner. The current study examines whether healthy communication partners naturally engage in different acoustic–prosodic behavior (speech compensations) when conversing with an individual with PD and, further, whether such behavior aids communication success. Method Measures of articulatory precision, speaking rate, and pitch variability were extracted from the speech of healthy speakers engaged in goal-directed dialogue with other healthy speakers (healthy–healthy dyads) and with individuals with PD (healthy–PD dyads). Speech compensations, operationally defined as significant differences in healthy speakers' acoustic–prosodic behavior in healthy–healthy dyads versus healthy–PD dyads, were calculated for the three speech behaviors. Finally, the relationships between speech behaviors and an objective measure of communicative efficiency were examined. Results Healthy speakers engaged in speech characterized by greater articulatory precision and slower speaking rate when conversing with individuals with PD relative to conversations with other healthy individuals. However, these adaptive speech compensations were not predictive of communicative efficiency. Conclusions Evidence that healthy speakers naturally engage in speech compensations when conversing with individuals with PD is novel, yet consistent with findings from studies with other populations in which conversation can be challenging. In the case of PD, these compensatory behaviors did not support communication outcomes. While preliminary in nature, the results raise important questions regarding the speech behavior of healthy communication partners and provide directions for future work.

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Do Conversational Partners Entrain on Articulatory Precision?

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Exploring the Impact of Two Feedback Types on Speech Intelligibility, Precision, and Naturalness

Exploring the Impact of Two Feedback Types on Speech Intelligibility, Precision, and Naturalness

Conversational Coordination of Articulation Responds to Context: A Clinical Test Case With Traumatic Brain Injury

Healthy Communication Partners Modify Their Speech When Conversing With Individuals With Parkinson's Disease

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