speech prosody. Prosodic impairments, however, were minimal inKurowski et al.’s (1996)patient, leading them to challenge the notion that a general prosodic disturbance is the sole underlying mechanism in FAS. It has proved to be very difficult to determine what constellation of phonetic features...
and expanded intonation contours typical of IDS were the acoustic basis of infants' preference. Several recent studies have noted that early studies of IDS preference often confounded the prosody of IDS with affect, because IDS typically contains expressions of positive emotion. These studies have show...
Among them are speech and voice disorders in Parkinson's Disease, using Spanish in the home to promote school readiness in English, treatment outcomes of the intensive stuttering therapy for adolescents and adults, whether prosody could be a diagnostic and cognitive bellwether of autism spectrum disor...
“Motherese” prosody in fetal-directed speech: an exploratory study using automatic social signal processing. Front Psychol. 2021;12:646170. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646170 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 64. Shimura Y, Yamanoucho I. Sound spectrographic studies on the relation between...
MBROLIGN is a prosody transplantation tool based on the use of the MBROLA Speech synthesizer.The system performs a temporal alignment of the phonetic transcription on the Speech signal (the .wav file) and generates a .pho file which can be used with MBROLA to produce natural sounding synthetic...
Sentence repetition and sentence comprehension are typically impaired and phonemic paraphasias (ie, nondistorted sound substitutions within utterances that are normal in rate and prosody) may be evident. Anomia is present but target words are recognized when provided on the majority of BNT errors. ...
towards free speech should give us more insight into the robustness of these acoustic speech features in more spontaneous settings, and will additionally enable us to investigate other linguistic features of speech in the context of stress, such as syntax, prosody, and semantics. Combining semantics...
Recent studies reveal that tonal language speakers with autism have enhanced neural sensitivity to pitch changes in nonspeech stimuli but not to lexical tone contrasts in their native language. The present ERP study investigated whether the distinct pitc
contributing to speed reduction in vocal output. The right hemisphere is better suited to process slowly modulating signals. Thus translating spoken language into musical prosody preferentially activates homologous networks of the right hemisphere (Patel, 2008). Second, processing of music engages the rig...
Challenges and future directions are discussed, including biomarker development, harmonization and application of NLP more broadly to behavior, including intonation/prosody, facial expression and gesture, and the integration of these in dyads and during discourse. Similar NLP analytics can also be applied...