The aim of this study is to determine whether fluent and non-fluent aphasics preserve the acoustic marks of lexical stress in a repetition task involving regular oxytone and paroxytone disyllabic Spanish words in isolation. Acoustic analyses of each syllable (duration, F0, intensity) were performed. These data were then subjected to mixed-effects regression analyses, separately for oxytones and...

Kohonen network was applied in the analysis of fluent and non-fluent utterances of any length. The input vector consisted of sound level values measured in dB(A) in 1/3-octave bands. Fragments of stuttering people’s and fluent speakers’ utterances were analysed. The optimum neural network was chosen of a 5×5 rectangle topology. Time arrangement of winner neurons in the network extracts single d...

Durative forces are introduced to Finite State Temporality (the application of Finite State Methods to Temporal Semantics). Punctual and durative forces are shown to have natural representations as fluents which place certain constraints on strings. These forces are related to previous work on stative explanations of aspectual classification. Given this extended ontology, it is shown how type c...

The paper discusses some properties of system descriptions in the recent extension of action language AL (also known as B) by defined fluents.

In speech, the phenomenon of coarticulation (differentiation of phoneme production depending on the preceding or following phonemes) suggests an organization of movement sequences that is not strictly serial. In the skeletal motor system, however, evidence for comparable fluency has been lacking. Thus the present study was designed to quantify coarticulation in the hand movement sequences of si...

This paper analyses coarticulation in Italian and French monolingual stutterers tested in fluent speech. Our aim is to discover whether the stutterers’ fluent speech presents specificities in intra-syllabic coarticulation opposed to the fluent speakers. Two factors will be considered: the role of the syllabic complexity and that of the language. The participants repeat syllables of variable com...

Recent articles on familiarity (e.g. Whittlesea, B.W.A, 1993. Journal of Experimental Psychology 19, 1235) have argued that the feeling of familiarity is produced by unconscious attribution of fluent processing to a source in the past. In this article, we refine that notion: We argue that is not fluency per se, but rather fluent processing occurring under unexpected circumstances that produces ...