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Fricke, Melinda Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Studies of connected speech have repeatedly shown that the contextual predictability of a word is related to its phonetic duration; more predictable words tend to be produced with shorter duration, when other factors are controlled for (Aylett & Turk, 2004, 2006; Bell et al., 2003; Bell, Brenier, Gregory, Girand, & Jurafsky, 2009; Gahl,…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Models, Speech Communication
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De Bodt, Marc S.; Huici, Maria E. Hernandez-Diaz; Van De Heyning, Paul H. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2002
Speech samples of 79 dysarthric patients were judged for voice quality, articulation, nasality, and prosody as well as overall intelligibility. Application of a multiple regression model found that intelligibility can be expressed as a linear combination of weighted perceptual dimensions with articulation as the strongest contributor to…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Evaluation Methods, Models