This study is part of a larger project investigating the individual and combined effects of word position, utterance length, and phonetic context on kinematic aspects of labial and mandibular movements during grammatically correct and semantically meaningful utterances. In the present study, the effects of word position and utterance length on kinematic measures of movement duration, movement e...

Pausing in speech allows a speaker to plan for the upcoming utterance, as well as to indicate to the listener finality of utterance. In this paper I examine pause patterning and IPU length in two typologically distinct Australian languages; Dalabon and Kayardild. Results show that Dalabon prefers considerably longer stretches of continuous speech than Kayardild. Preliminary findings reveal that...

In this study, we analyzed prosodic features of accentual phrases and investigated their temporal changes to obtain cues for detecting boundaries at where turn-taking could occur in spontaneous conversations. The acoustic parameters used as prosodic features were the fundamental frequency, sound pressure level, and duration of accentual phrases in long utterance units. The results showed that t...

This paper addresses the recognition of elderly callers based on short and narrow-band utterances, which are typical for Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. Our study is based on 2308 short utterances from a deployed IVR application. We show that features such as speaking rate, jitter and shimmer that are considered as most meaningful ones for determining elderly users underperform when u...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether increased utterance length and grammatical complexity are associated with changes in frequency of systematic speech errors (i.e., phonological processes, or sound changes affecting an entire class of sounds or sound sequence [Edwards & Shriberg, 1983]), and nonsystematic speech errors (i.e., a word or string of words that apparently deviates fro...

Dynamic Time Warping is a technique for aligning two sequences of symbols. For speech recognition, the obvious application is aligning a captured utterance with an idealized template utterance. In general the two sequences are not of equal length, and the expansion or compression needed to align the sequences may not be uniform. For example, a template utterance may be spoken at a uniform rate ...

PURPOSE To explore the effects of utterance length, syntactic complexity, and grammatical correctness on stuttering in the spontaneous speech of young, monolingual Spanish-speaking children. METHOD Spontaneous speech samples of 11 monolingual Spanish-speaking children who stuttered, ages 35 to 70 months, were examined. Mean number of syllables, total number of clauses, utterance complexity (i...

Language is one of the important aspects key to understanding specific goals and purposes used by people around world, language as a tool serves significant communication developing in human civilization. this evidenced many types supporting applications, Praat program which can change sound waves that previously could only be heard now become visible eye. In addition, program, equipped with de...

The article deals with the linguopoetics of deixis as one key mechanisms for expressing subjectivity in artistic communication. aim study is to discuss specifics deictic words and constructions experimental poetic discourse. second part analyzes functions personal, spatial, discourse (textual) visual layout a text (spatial design verse). material analysis encompasses Edward Cummings’ verse, con...