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Influence of cognitive function on speech and articulation rate in multiple sclerosis. [PDF]

J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 2013
AbstractWe examined cognitive predictors of speech and articulation rate in 50 individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 23 healthy controls. We measured speech and articulation rate from audio-recordings of participants reading aloud and talking extemporaneously on a topic of their choice (i.e., self-generated speech).
Rodgers JD, Tjaden K, Feenaughty L, Weinstock-Guttman B, Benedict RH.   +4 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

A Methodological Approach to Quantifying Silent Pauses, Speech Rate, and Articulation Rate across Distinct Narrative Tasks: Introducing the Connected Speech Analysis Protocol (CSAP) [PDF]

Brain Sciences
The examination of connected speech may serve as a valuable tool for exploring speech output in both healthy speakers and individuals with language disorders.
Georgia Angelopoulou, Dimitrios Kasselimis, Dionysios Goutsos, Constantin Potagas   +3 more
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Decoding How Articulation and Pauses Influence Pronunciation Proficiency in Korean Learners of English [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences
This study investigates how temporal fluency cues shape human ratings of L2 English pronunciation in Korean learners, using a large read-speech corpus annotated with five-point pronunciation scores.
Tae-Jin Yoon, Seunghee Han, Seunghee Ha
doaj   +2 more sources

The effect of emotion on articulation rate in persistence and recovery of childhood stuttering. [PDF]

J Fluency Disord, 2018
This study investigated the possible association of emotional processes and articulation rate in pre-school age children who stutter and persist (persisting), children who stutter and recover (recovered) and children who do not stutter (nonstuttering).The participants were ten persisting, ten recovered, and ten nonstuttering children between the ages ...
Erdemir A, Walden TA, Jefferson CM, Choi D, Jones RM.   +4 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Articulation Rate and Speech Rhythm in Child-Directed Speech and Adult-Directed Speech

Journal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association, 2022
Introduction Studies have demonstrated that mothers exaggerate linguistic, segmental and supra-segmental properties of Child-Directed Speech. However, these studies have majorly focused on acoustic characteristics of pitch and its related measures. There
Jyothi Shivaswamy, Santosh Maruthy, Animesh Barman   +2 more
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Reading Fluency in Children and Adolescents Who Stutter

Brain Sciences, 2021
Speech fluency is a major challenge for young persons who stutter. Reading aloud, in particular, puts high demands on fluency, not only regarding online text decoding and articulation, but also in terms of prosodic performance.
Mona Franke, Philip Hoole, Ramona Schreier, Simone Falk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Silent Pauses and Speech Indices as Biomarkers for Primary Progressive Aphasia

Medicina, 2022
Background and Objectives: Recent studies highlight the importance of investigating biomarkers for diagnosing and classifying patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA).
Constantin Potagas, Zoi Nikitopoulou, Georgia Angelopoulou, Dimitrios Kasselimis, Nikolaos Laskaris, Evie Kourtidou, Vasilios C. Constantinides, Anastasia Bougea, George P. Paraskevas, Georgios Papageorgiou, Dimitrios Tsolakopoulos, Sokratis G. Papageorgiou, Elisabeth Kapaki   +12 more
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Convergence of articulation rate in spontaneous speech [PDF]

Interspeech 2013, 2013
This paper presents results from a project on phonetic convergence in German spontaneous speech. We used linear mixed models to examine 22 unimodal and 24 multimodal dialogs for articulation rate. We show that speakers’ local articulation rates are influenced by the preceding rates of their interlocutors, and that the direction of this influence (i.e.,
Antje Schweitzer, Natalie Lewandowski
openaire   +1 more source

Occurrence and Duration of Pauses in Relation to Speech Tempo and Structural Organization in Two Speech Genres

Languages, 2023
Pauses act as important acoustic cues to prosodic phrase boundaries. However, the distribution and phonetic characteristics of pauses have not yet been fully described either cross-linguistically or in different genres and speech styles within languages.
Pavel Šturm, Jan Volín
doaj   +1 more source

The Articulation of Local Government Financial Statements and Their Effect on Its Quality

The Indonesian Journal of Accounting Research, 2021
This research aims to analyze the level of articulation of Local Government Financial Statement (LKPD) and their effects on the quality of LKPD as a basis for local government economic decision making.
Bella Meihana, Abdul Halim , Evi Maria
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