Creak in the Respiratory Cycle

Aare, Kätlin; Lippus, Pärtel; Włodarczak, Marcin; Heldner, Mattias

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2018-2165

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“…Increased glottal resistance has also been found in experimental data of natural multiparty conversations (Aare et al 2018). The authors show that creaky voice is more frequent in longer than in shorter exhalation periods, as predicted in the model of Zhang (2016).…”

Section: Laryngeal Compensation For Air Losssupporting

confidence: 57%

The Respiratory Foundations of Spoken Language

Fuchs

Rochet-Capellan

2021

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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Why is breathing relevant in linguistics? In this review, we approach this question from different perspectives. The most popular view is that breathing adapts to speech because respiratory behavior has astonishing flexibility. We review research that shows that breathing pauses occur mostly at meaningful places, that breathing adapts to cognitive load during speech perception, and that breathing adapts to communicative needs in dialogue. However, speech may also adapt to breathing (e.g., the larynx can compensate for air loss, breathing can partially affect f0 declination). Enhanced breathing control may have played a role in vocalization and language evolution. These views are not mutually exclusive but, rather, reveal that speech production and breathing have an interwoven relationship that depends on communicative and physical constraints. We suggest that breathing should become an important topic for different linguistic areas and that future work should investigate the interaction between breathing and speech in different situational contexts. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 7 is January 14, 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Laryngeal Compensation For Air Losssupporting

confidence: 57%

The Respiratory Foundations of Spoken Language

Fuchs

Rochet-Capellan

2021

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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“…The measured kinematic output in speech production is, therefore, heavily modulated by the laryngeal configuration and upper vocal tract, which can also compensate for the loss of air. 17,49,50 The control of the larynx and upper articulators may be speaker-specific and could account for the consistency of the cycle shape.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Speech breathing: variable but individual over time and according to limb movements

Serre

Dohen

Fuchs

et al. 2021

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Breathing is variable but also highly individual. Since the 1980s, evidence of a ventilatory personality has been observed in different physiological studies. This original term refers to within-speaker consistency in breathing characteristics across days or even years. Speech breathing is a specific way to control ventilation while supporting speech planning and phonation constraints. It is highly variable between speakers but also for the same speaker, depending on utterance properties, bodily actions, and the context of an interaction. Can we yet still observe consistency over time in speakers' breathing profiles despite these variations? We addressed this question by analyzing the breathing profiles of 25 native speakers of German performing a narrative task on 2 days under different limb movement conditions. The individuality of breathing profiles over conditions and days was assessed by adopting methods used in physiological studies that investigated a ventilatory personality. Our results suggest that speakerspecific breathing profiles in a narrative task are maintained over days and that they stay consistent despite light physical activity. These results are discussed with a focus on better understanding what speech breathing individuality is, how it can be assessed, and the types of research perspectives that this concept opens up.

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“…However, results on f0 in fillers, across languages and age, are mixed, possibly because authors have not analyzed the data based on prosodic context. Generally, we might predict that utterance-final positions have lower f0 as a function of declination (e.g., Gendrot and Schmid 2011) and utterance-final use of creaky phonation (Aare et al 2018;Ogden 2001). Zhang (2016b) has also suggested that speakers may make glottal adjustments to conserve airflow reserves under some conditions (e.g., long utterances), such as adopting more adducted laryngeal postures.…”

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A Longitudinal Study of Speech Acoustics in Older French Females: Analysis of the Filler Particle euh across Utterance Positions

2021

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Aging in speech production is a multidimensional process. Biological, cognitive, social, and communicative factors can change over time, stay relatively stable, or may even compensate for each other. In this longitudinal work, we focus on stability and change at the laryngeal and supralaryngeal levels in the discourse particle euh produced by 10 older French-speaking females at two times, 10 years apart. Recognizing the multiple discourse roles of euh, we divided out occurrences according to utterance position. We quantified the frequency of euh, and evaluated acoustic changes in formants, fundamental frequency, and voice quality across time and utterance position. Results showed that euh frequency was stable with age. The only acoustic measure that revealed an age effect was harmonics-to-noise ratio, showing less noise at older ages. Other measures mostly varied with utterance position, sometimes in interaction with age. Some voice quality changes could reflect laryngeal adjustments that provide for airflow conservation utterance-finally. The data suggest that aging effects may be evident in some prosodic positions (e.g., utterance-final position), but not others (utterance-initial position). Thus, it is essential to consider the interactions among these factors in future work and not assume that vocal aging is evident throughout the signal.

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Creak in the Respiratory Cycle

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

The Respiratory Foundations of Spoken Language

The Respiratory Foundations of Spoken Language

Speech breathing: variable but individual over time and according to limb movements

A Longitudinal Study of Speech Acoustics in Older French Females: Analysis of the Filler Particle euh across Utterance Positions

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