Temporal characteristics of speech: The effect of age and speech style

Bóna, Judit

doi:10.1121/1.4885482

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“…The obtained results are supported by previous studies 6,8,14,22,23 that showed speech and articulation rates decrease and duration and frequency of pauses increase through aging.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…The first 5 minutes of participants' speech were analyzed. 14 After recording samples, varieties of disfluencies were identified in two groups, including stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD), such as syllable repetition, sound repetition, prolongation, blocks, pauses, and intrusion of sounds or segments, and other disfluencies (OD) including hesitation, interjection, revision, non-finished words, word repetition, and segment repetition or phrase repetition. 6 Then, frequency of various disfluencies (number of disfluencies in 100 words) was calculated.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…21 The number of syllables was calculated according to number of vowels through PRAAT Script, and speech rate was found by dividing the number of syllables by total speech time (including pauses) and articulation rate was found by dividing the total number of syllables by total speech time (without pauses). 14 The inter-reliability was determined by two researchers analyzing 10% of speech samples from each age group, and inter-agreement exceeded 92% in all calculated parameters. Two months after initial analysis, intra-reliability was determined by random selection and analysis of 10% of speech samples from each age group by the first researcher, and intra-agreement was greater than 95% in all calculated parameters.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…6 Then, frequency of various disfluencies (number of disfluencies in 100 words) was calculated. Since pause as a speech temporal feature would affect speech and articulation rates, 14 frequency and duration of pauses were also calculated. Pauses lasting longer than 200 milliseconds were calculated.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…13 A study by Bona on 20 to 32-year-old and 66 to 90-year-old age groups showed that age affected speech rate, articulation rate, and frequency of pauses. 14 Several studies have emphasized the need for further collection of data on speech changes in elderly people. Such data can provide an insight into speech parameters in aging.…”

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Do older adults experience changes in their speech fluency? Some evidence from Iranian elderly people

2017

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Background: Normal aging can affect speech fluency. Changes in anatomy and physiology of speech production system in elderly people may reduce speech fluency. However, few studies have been conducted on age-related changes in speech fluency and their results are very contradictory. The aim of this study was to explore speech fluency characteristics in elderly adults and to respond to controversies in this field. Methods: For this purpose, speech fluency features of 32 young adults, 37 middle-aged adults, 33 young-old adults and 26 old-old adults in conversation were analyzed. Speech and articulation rate, frequency and duration of pauses and frequency and type of disfluencies were calculated. Results: The findings showed that speech rate, frequency of other disfluencies (OD) and frequency of pauses in young adults were significantly different with young-old and old-old adults. The same significant differences were found between middle-age adults and both young-old and old-old groups. In terms of articulation rate, frequency of stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD) and duration of pause, there was a significant difference between old-old group and other age groups. Conclusions: Changes in cognitive capacity, anatomy and physiology of speech production system affect the speech fluency in elderly people. Therefore, aging would affect speech fluency even in normal elderly people.

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“…The obtained results are supported by previous studies 6,8,14,22,23 that showed speech and articulation rates decrease and duration and frequency of pauses increase through aging.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Procedures and Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Procedures and Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Procedures and Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Do older adults experience changes in their speech fluency? Some evidence from Iranian elderly people

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Speech patterns during memory recall relates to early tau burden across adulthood

Young,

Smith,

Karjadi

et al. 2024

Alzheimer's & Dementia

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INTRODUCTIONEarly cognitive decline may manifest in subtle differences in speech.METHODSWe examined 238 cognitively unimpaired adults from the Framingham Heart Study (32–75 years) who completed amyloid and tau PET imaging. Speech patterns during delayed recall of a story memory task were quantified via five speech markers, and their associations with global amyloid status and regional tau signal were examined.RESULTSTotal utterance time, number of between‐utterance pauses, speech rate, and percentage of unique words significantly correlated with delayed recall score although the shared variance was low (2%–15%). Delayed recall score was not significantly different between β‐amyoid‐positive (Aβ+) and ‐negative (Aβ−) groups and was not associated with regional tau signal. However, longer and more between‐utterance pauses, and slower speech rate were associated with increased tau signal across medial temporal and early neocortical regions.DISCUSSIONSubtle speech changes during memory recall may reflect cognitive impairment associated with early Alzheimer's disease pathology.Highlights Speech during delayed memory recall relates to tau PET signal across adulthood. Delayed memory recall score was not associated with tau PET signal. Speech shows greater sensitivity to detecting subtle cognitive changes associated with early tau accumulation. Our cohort spans adulthood, while most PET imaging studies focus on older adults.

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Speech aging: Production and perception

Tucker

Ford

Hedges

2021

WIRES Cognitive Science

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In this overview we describe literature on how speech production and speech perception change in healthy or normal aging across the adult lifespan. In the production section we review acoustic characteristics that have been investigated as potentially distinguishing younger and older adults. In the speech perception section studies concerning speaker age estimation and those investigating older listeners' perception are addressed. Our discussion focuses on major themes and other fruitful areas for future research. This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Language in Mind and Brain Linguistics > Linguistic Theory Psychology > Development and Aging

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Temporal characteristics of speech: The effect of age and speech style

Cited by 53 publications

References 10 publications

Do older adults experience changes in their speech fluency? Some evidence from Iranian elderly people

Do older adults experience changes in their speech fluency? Some evidence from Iranian elderly people

Speech patterns during memory recall relates to early tau burden across adulthood

Speech aging: Production and perception

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