Human respiratory muscles: Three levels of control

Aleksandrova, N. P.; Breslav, I. S.

doi:10.1134/s0362119709020133

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“…By contrast, longer stretches of speech are expected to follow an inhalation directly. This is in line with the economy principle: given that production effort is mainly associated with starting a new inhalatory cycle (Aleksandrova and Breslav, 2009 ), using residual air minimizes production costs while realizing speaker's communicative intentions.…”

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Respiratory Constraints in Verbal and Non-verbal Communication

Włodarczak

Heldner

2017

Front. Psychol.

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In the present paper we address the old question of respiratory planning in speech production. We recast the problem in terms of speakers' communicative goals and propose that speakers try to minimize respiratory effort in line with the H&H theory. We analyze respiratory cycles coinciding with no speech (i.e., silence), short verbal feedback expressions (SFE's) as well as longer vocalizations in terms of parameters of the respiratory cycle and find little evidence for respiratory planning in feedback production. We also investigate timing of speech and SFEs in the exhalation and contrast it with nods. We find that while speech is strongly tied to the exhalation onset, SFEs are distributed much more uniformly throughout the exhalation and are often produced on residual air. Given that nods, which do not have any respiratory constraints, tend to be more frequent toward the end of an exhalation, we propose a mechanism whereby respiratory patterns are determined by the trade-off between speakers' communicative goals and respiratory constraints.

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Respiratory Constraints in Verbal and Non-verbal Communication

Włodarczak

Heldner

2017

Front. Psychol.

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“…Breathing has been extensively monitored and analyzed in physiological research. For example, Aleksandrova and Breslav (2009) as well as Shea (1996) provide comprehensive reviews on the control of breathing. Breathing control is commonly split into vegetative and behavioral breathing .…”

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Changes in breathing while listening to read speech: the effect of reader and speech mode

Rochet-Capellan

Fuchs

2013

Front. Psychol.

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The current paper extends previous work on breathing during speech perception and provides supplementary material regarding the hypothesis that adaptation of breathing during perception “could be a basis for understanding and imitating actions performed by other people” (Paccalin and Jeannerod, 2000). The experiments were designed to test how the differences in reader breathing due to speaker-specific characteristics, or differences induced by changes in loudness level or speech rate influence the listener breathing. Two readers (a male and a female) were pre-recorded while reading short texts with normal and then loud speech (both readers) or slow speech (female only). These recordings were then played back to 48 female listeners. The movements of the rib cage and abdomen were analyzed for both the readers and the listeners. Breathing profiles were characterized by the movement expansion due to inhalation and the duration of the breathing cycle. We found that both loudness and speech rate affected each reader’s breathing in different ways. Listener breathing was different when listening to the male or the female reader and to the different speech modes. However, differences in listener breathing were not systematically in the same direction as reader differences. The breathing of listeners was strongly sensitive to the order of presentation of speech mode and displayed some adaptation in the time course of the experiment in some conditions. In contrast to specific alignments of breathing previously observed in face-to-face dialog, no clear evidence for a listener–reader alignment in breathing was found in this purely auditory speech perception task. The results and methods are relevant to the question of the involvement of physiological adaptations in speech perception and to the basic mechanisms of listener–speaker coupling.

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“…At rest, breathing cycles are relatively regular and symmetrical with respect to the duration of inhalation and exhalation phases and to the volume of the air inhaled and exhaled. This profile changes during speech production, based on the involvement of specific neural networks to control the respiratory muscles [10,11].…”

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Take a breath and take the turn: how breathing meets turns in spontaneous dialogue

Rochet-Capellan

Fuchs

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Physiological rhythms are sensitive to social interactions and could contribute to defining social rhythms. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the implications of breathing in conversational turn exchanges remains limited. In this paper, we addressed the idea that breathing may contribute to timing and coordination between dialogue partners. The relationships between turns and breathing were analysed in unconstrained face-to-face conversations involving female speakers. No overall relationship between breathing and turn-taking rates was observed, as breathing rate was specific to the subjects' activity in dialogue (listening versus taking the turn versus holding the turn). A general inter-personal coordination of breathing over the whole conversation was not evident. However, specific coordinative patterns were observed in shorter time-windows when participants engaged in taking turns. The type of turn-taking had an effect on the respective coordination in breathing. Most of the smooth and interrupted turns were taken just after an inhalation, with specific profiles of alignment to partner breathing. Unsuccessful attempts to take the turn were initiated late in the exhalation phase and with no clear inter-personal coordination. Finally, breathing profiles at turn-taking were different than those at turn-holding. The results support the idea that breathing is actively involved in turn-taking and turn-holding.

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Human respiratory muscles: Three levels of control

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Respiratory Constraints in Verbal and Non-verbal Communication

Respiratory Constraints in Verbal and Non-verbal Communication

Changes in breathing while listening to read speech: the effect of reader and speech mode

Take a breath and take the turn: how breathing meets turns in spontaneous dialogue

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