Segmental versus Suprasegmental: Which One is More Important to Teach?

Wang, Xue

doi:10.1177/0033688220925926

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“…Speech can be studied in their fully extension, comprising both segmental and suprasegmental features. Segmental features concern the characteristics of individual phonemes; suprasegmental or prosodic features are transmitted in syllables, utterances, or sentences and consists in, e.g., acoustic emphasis, rhythm, stress or intonation [ 9 ].…”

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Association between acoustic speech features and non-severe levels of anxiety and depression symptoms across lifespan

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Background Several studies have investigated the acoustic effects of diagnosed anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression are not characteristics of the typical aging process, but minimal or mild symptoms can appear and evolve with age. However, the knowledge about the association between speech and anxiety or depression is scarce for minimal/mild symptoms, typical of healthy aging. As longevity and aging are still a new phenomenon worldwide, posing also several clinical challenges, it is important to improve our understanding of non-severe mood symptoms’ impact on acoustic features across lifetime. The purpose of this study was to determine if variations in acoustic measures of voice are associated with non-severe anxiety or depression symptoms in adult population across lifetime. Methods Two different speech tasks (reading vowels in disyllabic words and describing a picture) were produced by 112 individuals aged 35-97. To assess anxiety and depression symptoms, the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was used. The association between the segmental and suprasegmental acoustic parameters and HADS scores were analyzed using the linear multiple regression technique. Results The number of participants with presence of anxiety or depression symptoms is low (>7: 26.8% and 10.7%, respectively) and non-severe (HADS-A: 5.4 ± 2.9 and HADS-D: 4.2 ± 2.7, respectively). Adults with higher anxiety symptoms did not present significant relationships associated with the acoustic parameters studied. Adults with increased depressive symptoms presented higher vowel duration, longer total pause duration and short total speech duration. Finally, age presented a positive and significant effect only for depressive symptoms, showing that older participants tend to have more depressive symptoms. Conclusions Non-severe depression symptoms can be related to some acoustic parameters and age. Depression symptoms can be explained by acoustic parameters even among individuals without severe symptom levels.

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Association between acoustic speech features and non-severe levels of anxiety and depression symptoms across lifespan

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“…In this vein, it is argued that such a path might impede learners from noticing how those elements interact and change meaning overall (Pennington & Rogerson-Revell, 2019). Building on such argument, some scholars suggest that stress patterns should be highlighted based on the comprehension of the interlocutors as they can be held responsible for particular diversions from the intelligibility (Chela-Flores, 2001;Fraser, 2001;Tanner & Landon;2009;Wang, 2020). With regards to the suprasegmental features and their role in intelligibility, there seems to be a low number of studies (Arslan, 2013;Çelik, 1999;Demirezen, 2009;Hişmanoğlu, 2012;Yurtbaşı, 2017) and dissertations (Kılınç & Yıldırım, 2019;Kurt, 2018) conducted in Turkey.…”

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“…There have been some practical suggestions upon how to incorporate suprasegmental features into pronunciation teaching in an EFL context. It has been argued that rather than entangled with prioritizing segmental or suprasegmental features, teachers or prospective teachers should be informed about how they operate and modify meaning in an utterance (Wang, 2020). In this way, Turkish EFL learners of English could be familiarized with the diversions of their use of suprasegmental features and trained towards excelling intelligibility.…”

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Comparing the melodies of Turkish and English speech: A focus on suprasegmentals

Şen¹

2021

JLLS

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When it comes to paying attention to the suprasegmental features of their speech, most learners of English seem to be unaware that such phenomena as stress, pitch, duration, and pausing can be of great importance regarding mutual intelligibility. Since they carry a considerable weight of establishing an intelligible conversation, it is argued that they should take part in learners' curricula. In this light, the present study is set out to examine the suprasegmental features of a non-native learner and a native speaker, deriving similarities and diversions with regards to the way they operate the suprasegmental features in their speech data. Therefore, the present study analyses and compares some suprasegmental features of the speech data gathered from a Turkish learner of English and a native speaker of American English. In this vein, fifty sentences are read aloud separately by the Turkish learner of English and the native speaker. The similarities and diversion points are presented and analyzed to highlight some recursivities within the dataset. In this way, teachers and learners of English might be informed upon certain points to improve their intelligibility.

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“…Stress emphasizes the syllables. Articulation refers to the movement of the teeth, lips, and tongue to change the sound produced (Wang, 2020). When speaking, intonation refers to the rising or falling of a sound.…”

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“…Good pronunciation promotes learning, whereas poor pronunciation promotes significant difficulties in language teaching. It includes paying attention to the specific sounds of a language (segments), aspects of speech that go beyond the level of the individual sound, such as intonation, phrasing, stress, timing, and rhythm (suprasegmental aspects), how the voice is projected (voice quality), and, in its broadest definition, paying attention to gestures and expressions that are closely related to how we speak a language (Wang, 2020).…”

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The influence of Madurese dialect toward students’ English word stress production

Puspandari

Basthomi

2022

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Communication using English in Indonesia is challenging, especially when English is not used frequently. It’s happen to some area where English is only taught as mandatory subject in high schools. Madura is one of island in East Java that has unique characteristic, especially in the native language. This study aimed to analyze the misplaced of English word stress done by Madurese students and to find out the reason why they frequently misplace the word stress. A questionnaire and recording were used to collect data about students’ background identity and to record the students’ voice in pronouncing English words. The data were analysed by using qualitative research design to find out the causes of word stress misplacement. The findings revealved that the influence of mother language, motivation, attitude, and age are the most influential factors that generate students in misplacing the word stress. Besides, the lack of pronunciation training and practice done by teachers in their high school was also generating factors for students in pronouncing incorrect word stresses.

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Segmental versus Suprasegmental: Which One is More Important to Teach?

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Association between acoustic speech features and non-severe levels of anxiety and depression symptoms across lifespan

Association between acoustic speech features and non-severe levels of anxiety and depression symptoms across lifespan

Comparing the melodies of Turkish and English speech: A focus on suprasegmentals

The influence of Madurese dialect toward students’ English word stress production

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