Silent Pauses and Speech Indices as Biomarkers for Primary Progressive Aphasia [PDF]
Medicina (Lithuania), 2022 Background and Objectives: Recent studies highlight the importance of investigating biomarkers for diagnosing and classifying patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA).
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Languages, 2023 Filled pauses (i.e., gaps in speech production filled with non-lexical vocalizations) have been studied for more than sixty years in different languages.
Maria Gosy
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Investigating silent pauses in connected speech: integrating linguistic, neuropsychological, and neuroanatomical perspectives across narrative tasks in post-stroke aphasia [PDF]
Frontiers in NeurologyIntroductionSilent pauses are regarded as integral components of the temporal organization of speech. However, it has also been hypothesized that they serve as markers for internal cognitive processes, including word access, monitoring, planning, and ...
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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 SciencesThe examination of connected speech may serve as a valuable tool for exploring speech output in both healthy speakers and individuals with language disorders.
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Pauses as a Quantitative Measure of Linguistic Planning Challenges in Parkinson’s Disease [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Pausing is a multifaceted phenomenon relevant to motor and cognitive disorders, particularly Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Thus, examining pauses as a metric for linguistic planning and motor speech difficulties in PD patients has ...
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Neuropsychologia, 2018 Pauses may be studied as an aspect of the temporal organization of speech, as well as an index of internal cognitive processes, such as word access, selection and retrieval, monitoring, articulatory planning, and memory. Several studies have demonstrated specific distributional patterns of pauses in typical speech.
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The use of acoustically detected filled and silent pauses in spontaneous speech recognition [PDF]
2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009 In recognizing spontaneous speech, the performance of typical speech recognizers tends to be degraded by filled and silent pauses, which are hesitation phenomena frequently occurred in such speech. In this paper, we present a method for improving the performance of a speech recognizer by detecting and handling both filled pauses (lengthened vowels) and
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Listening to the sound of silence: disfluent silent pauses in speech have consequences for listeners [PDF]
Neuropsychologia, 2010 Silent pauses are a common form of disfluency in speech yet little attention has been paid to them in the psycholinguistic literature. The present paper investigates the consequences of such silences for listeners, using an Event-Related Potential (ERP) paradigm.
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A Preliminary Study on the Function of Silent Pauses in L1 and L2 Speakers of English and German [PDF]
Brno Studies in English, 2011 The aim of the present paper is to provide comparative analysis regarding the functions of pauses through exploration of the similarities and differences in semantically identical utterances in micro-textual units in colloquial style produced by L1 and L2 speakers of English and German.
Bilá, Magdalena, Džambová, Anna
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Linking silent pause locations in speech to amyloid and tau deposition in cognitively unimpaired individuals. [PDF]
J Alzheimers DisBackground Connected speech and language (CSL) analysis can differentiate typically aging individuals from those with dementia by identifying subtle changes in language-dependent measures, such as lexical diversity and fluency.
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