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The Effect of Speaking Rate on Audio and Visual Speech [PDF]
, 2014 The speed that an utterance is spoken affects both the duration of the speech and the position of the articulators. Consequently, the sounds that are produced are modified, as are the position and appearance of the lips, teeth, tongue and other visible ...
Matthews, Iain +2 more
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Reductions in prefrontal activation predict off-topic utterances during speech production
bioRxiv, 2018 The ability to speak coherently is essential for effective communication but declines with age: older people more frequently produce tangential, off-topic speech.
P. Hoffman
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Hemodynamics of speech production: An fNIRS investigation of children who stutter
Scientific Reports, 2017 Stuttering affects nearly 1% of the population worldwide and often has life-altering negative consequences, including poorer mental health and emotional well-being, and reduced educational and employment achievements.
B. Walsh +5 more
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Lombard Effect in Polish Speech and its Comparison in English Speech
Archives of Acoustics, 2017 The first extensive investigation on the Lombard effect with Polish speech has been performed. Characteristic parameters of Lombard speech were measured: intensity, fundamental frequency, spectral tilt, duration of words, duration of pauses and duration ...
Piotr KLECZKOWSKI +2 more
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Subthalamic Nucleus and Sensorimotor Cortex Activity During Speech Production
Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 The sensorimotor cortex is somatotopically organized to represent the vocal tract articulators such as lips, tongue, larynx, and jaw. How speech and articulatory features are encoded at the subcortical level, however, remains largely unknown. We analyzed
A. Chrabaszcz +13 more
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Compensation in Time and Space: Prominence Marking in Aging and Disease
Languages, 2022 This study aims to explore the effects of healthy aging and Parkinson’s disease on speech motor performance. One area of speech production which requires fine speech motor control is prominence marking.
Tabea Thies, Anne Hermes, Doris Mücke
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tDCS over the left inferior frontal cortex improves speech production in aphasia
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 In this study, we investigated the combined effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and an intensive Conversational therapy treatment on discourse skills in twelve persons with chronic aphasia.
Paola eMarangolo
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Oromotor Nonverbal Performance and Speech Motor Control: Theory and Review of Empirical Evidence
Brain Sciences, 2023 This position paper offers a perspective on the long-standing debate concerning the role of oromotor, nonverbal gestures in understanding typical and disordered speech motor control secondary to neurological disease. Oromotor nonverbal tasks are employed
Gary Weismer
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Speech perception and production [PDF]
WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010 AbstractUntil recently, research in speech perception and speech production has largely focused on the search for psychological and phonetic evidence of discrete, abstract, context‐free symbolic units corresponding to phonological segments or phonemes.
Elizabeth D, Casserly, David B, Pisoni
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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 This study aims to investigate the perception and production of the English /ɪ/–/iː/ vowel contrast by Cypriot Greek speakers of English as a second language (L2). The participants completed a classification test in which they classified the L2 vowels in
Georgios P. Georgiou
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