Speech rate effects on european portuguese nasal vowels

This study explored the effects of reduced speech rate on nasal/voice accelerometric measures and nasality ratings. Nasal/voice accelerometric measures were obtained from normal adults for various speech stimuli and speaking rates. Stimuli included three sentences (one obstruent-loaded, one semivowel-loaded, and one containing a single nasal), and /p/ syllable trains. Speakers read the stimuli at their normal rate, half their normal rate, and as slowly as possible. In addition, a computer program paced each speaker at rates of 1, 2, and 3 syllables per second. The nasal/voice accelerometric values revealed significant stimulus effects but no rate effects. The nasality ratings of experienced listeners, evaluated as a function of stimulus and speaking rate, were compared to the accelerometric measures. The nasality scale values demonstrated small, but statistically significant, stimulus and rate effects. However, the nasality percepts were poorly correlated with the nasal/voice accelerometric measures.

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Eye-tracking the time course of distal and global speech rate effects.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance ◽

10.1037/xhp0000838 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 (10) ◽

pp. 1148-1163

Author(s):

Merel Maslowski ◽

Antje S. Meyer ◽

Hans Rutger Bosker

Keyword(s):

Eye Tracking ◽

Time Course ◽

Speech Rate ◽

Rate Effects

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An MRI study of the oral articulation of European Portuguese nasal vowels

10.21437/interspeech.2012-668 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Catarina Oliveira ◽

Paula Martins ◽

Samuel Silva ◽

António Teixeira

Keyword(s):

Nasal Vowels ◽

European Portuguese ◽

Mri Study

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Slow speech rate effects on stuttering preschoolers with disordered phonology

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics ◽

10.3109/02699206.2014.1003970 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 29 (5) ◽

pp. 354-377 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Lisa R. LaSalle

Keyword(s):

Speech Rate ◽

Rate Effects ◽

Slow Speech

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Speech rate effects upon intelligibility and acceptability of dysarthric speech

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics ◽

10.1080/02699200400026843 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 20 (2-3) ◽

pp. 141-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Paul A. Dagenais ◽

Gidget R. Brown ◽

Robert E. Moore

Keyword(s):

Speech Rate ◽

Rate Effects ◽

Dysarthric Speech

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Rate effects on aerodynamics of intervocalic stops: evidence from real speech data and model data

ZAS Papers in Linguistics ◽

10.21248/zaspil.49.2008.361 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 49 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Claire Brutel-Vuilmet ◽

Susanne Fuchs

Keyword(s):

Native Speakers ◽

Speech Rate ◽

Model Data ◽

Potential Control ◽

Physical Mechanisms ◽

Aerodynamic Properties ◽

Rate Effects ◽

Speech Data ◽

Pressure Development ◽

Intraoral Pressure

This paper is a first attempt towards a better understanding of the aerodynamic properties during speech production and their potential control. In recent years, studies on intraoral pressure in speech have been rather rare, and more studies concern the air flow development. However, the intraoral pressure is a crucial factor for analysing the production of various sounds. In this paper, we focus on the intraoral pressure development during the production of intervocalic stops. Two experimental methodologies are presented and confronted with each other: real speech data recorded for four German native speakers, and model data, obtained by a mechanical replica which allows reproducing the main physical mechanisms occurring during phonation. The two methods are presented and applied to a study on the influence of speech rate on aerodynamic properties.

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Nasal vowels and diphthongs in European Portuguese: a problem for Slovene speakers

Linguistica ◽

10.4312/linguistica.57.1.243-254 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 57 (1) ◽

pp. 243-254

Author(s):

Blažka Müller Pograjc ◽

Jasmina Markič

Keyword(s):

Slavic Language ◽

Romance Language ◽

Nasal Vowels ◽

European Portuguese ◽

Vowel Systems ◽

The University

Portuguese, a Romance language, and Slovene, a Slavic language, are distant in the geographical, historical, cultural and linguistic senses. There are not many contrastive studies of these two languages, and even fewer in the phonetic-phonological field. The present work is limited to the study of standard European Portuguese (PE) and aims to address one of the major problems in teaching Portuguese phonetics to Slovene speakers: the correct production of Portuguese nasal vowels.After a contrastive presentation of the vowel systems of both languages, the study is limited to Portuguese nasal vowels and diphthongs, which do not exist in Slovene. The analysis of Portuguese vowels is fundamentally related to the position of the accent: stressed vowels and pretonic, postonic or final vowels. The nasal vowels are presented in smaller numbers than the oral ones and do not occur in postonic syllables, except in some diphthongs. This work presents the analysis of a practical survey carried out in Portuguese classes for Slovene students of level A at the University of Ljubljana and is focused on the production of nasal vowels by Slovene speakers. The objective is to highlight the errors produced, to look for the causes in order to improve the teaching of this aspect of the phonetics and phonology of the European Portuguese.

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