Children who stutter exchange linguistic accuracy for processing speed in sentence comprehension

Fortunato-Tavares, Talita; Howell, Peter; Schwartz, Richard G.; Andrade, Cláudia Regina Furquim de

doi:10.1017/s0142716416000187

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“…Eight filler sentences contained a predicate attachment, like in (c), and eight contained a reflexive assignment, like in (d). These filler sentences were previously used in studies that did not investigate prosody (19,(23)(24)(25) . New recordings of the original sentences were made, focusing on stress manipulations.…”

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Are prosodic effects on sentence comprehension dependent on age?

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Andrade

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Purpose to investigate prosodic boundary effects on the comprehension of attachment ambiguities in Brazilian Portuguese and to test two hypotheses relying on the notion of boundary strength: the absolute boundary hypothesis (ABH) and the relative boundary hypothesis (RBH). Manipulations of prosodic structure influence how listeners interpret syntactically ambiguous sentences. However, the role of prosody in spoken language comprehension of sentences has received limited attention in languages other than English, particularly from a developmental perspective. Methods Twenty-three adults and 15 children participated in a computerized sentence comprehension task involving syntactically ambiguous sentences. Each sentence was recorded in eight different prosodic forms with acoustic manipulations of F0, duration and pause varying the boundary size to reflect predictions of the ABH and RBH. Results Children and adults differed in how prosody influenced their syntactic processing and children were significantly slower than adults. Results indicated that interpretation of sentences varied according to their prosodic forms. Conclusion Neither the ABH or the RBH explained how children and adults who speak Brazilian Portuguese use prosodic boundaries to disambiguate sentences. There is evidence that the way prosodic boundaries influence disambiguation varies cross-linguistically.

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Section: Statistical Analysis Of Experimental Manipulation Of Stimulimentioning

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Are prosodic effects on sentence comprehension dependent on age?

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Schwartz

Andrade

et al. 2023

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“…Determining the CAF levels of a production depends on at least two elements: the task to be developed and the level of language proficiency of the performer. Apart from these, the level of accuracy might be influenced by the socio-educational context of the speaker, whereas the level of fluency might be affected by the speaker's personality, such as the degrees of self-confidence and extroversion (MacIntyre et al 1998;Arnold 1999), as well as by personal traits such as speech impairments, like stuttering (Fortunato-Tavares et al 2017).…”

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Audacity and Praat as Pedagogical Tools: Analysing Fluency and Pronunciation Accuracy

Martin-Rubió¹

2021

Philologia

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Glavna pretpostavka ovog rada jeste da analiziranje usmene produkcije pomoću pristupa pod imenom Kompleksnost, tačnost, fluentnost (Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency) može biti od koristi studentima engleskog jezika. U radu se opisuje projekat koji su studenti Univerziteta u Ljeidi (Katalonija, Španija) sproveli u okviru kursa Engleska fonetika i fonologija tokom školske 2019/2020. godine. Ovaj projekat, koji je podrazumevao upotrebu programa Praat i Audacity, između ostalog je bio pogodan za studente budući da se fonetske teme obrađene u softverima preklapaju sa onim koje se obrađuju u okviru pomenutog kursa. Međutim, smatramo da bi se projekat mogao prilagoditi i potrebama drugih studenata i predmeta.

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“…These filler sentences were previously used in studies that did not investigate prosody (Fortunato-Tavares et al, 2012Fortunato-Tavares, Howell, Schwartz, & de Andrade, 2017). New recordings of the original sentences were made, focusing on stress manipulations.…”

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confidence: 99%