Random Generation of Apparent Speech Rhythms

Jaffe, Joseph; Breskin, Stephen; Gerstman, Louis J.

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“…The Henderson procedure has been criticised because of its reliance on subjective methods (Jaffe, Breskin, & Gertsman, 1972;Kowal & O'Connel, 1985;Power, , 1984Rochester, 1973;Schwartz & Jaffe, 1968). Kowal and O'Connel point out that unless descriptive or inferential statistics are provided, the possibility that temporal cycles re ect random variation cannot be discounted.…”

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“…Schwartz and Jaffe (1968) argued that in any sequence of random events runs would occur such that, arbitrarily, one can always nd substances that give an apparent structure to the sequence of events. Jaffe et al (1972) generated time series of random speech and pause durations. When lines were tted to the plots using the Henderson procedure temporal cycles were detected by human judges.…”

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Temporal cycles in speech production

Roberts¹,

Kirsner²

2000

Language and Cognitive Processes

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The term macroplanning has been used to refer to the construction of semantic-conceptual structures that enable speakers to accomplish communicative goals during spontaneous speech production. One form of evidence provided as support for the existence of macroplanning are temporal cycles in speech uency. The assumption is that speakers alternate between phases of low uency, during which they prepare macroplans, and high uency, during which macroplans are executed in speech. Existing models of macroplanning suggest that temporal cycles therefore re ect a scheduling problem between processes competing for the capacity of shared resources. Time series analyses con rmed the existence of temporal cycles in spontaneous spoken discourse. In addition, evidence that topic shifts generally precede periods of increasing uency in the temporal cycle was thought to be consistent with the assumption that the cycle re ects macroplanning activity. Existing models of macroplanning are reviewed in light of these results, and problems associated with the underlying assumptions of these models are discussed.

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Temporal cycles in speech production

Roberts¹,

Kirsner²

2000

Language and Cognitive Processes

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“…Cycle times have been found to range between 10.6 and 39.2 s.ec, with a mean of 18.0 sec (Butterworth, 1975) which suggests that such units are substantially larger than individual clauses. The evidence for these cycles has, however, been called into question by Jaffe, Breskin and Gerstman (1972) who demonstrated that cycles could be discerned in randomly generated pause-phonation series. It was also found in the simulated speech as well as in real spontaneous speech that the longer the pause time in the steep (hesitant) slope, the longer the phonation time in the succeeding shallow (fluent) slope.…”

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Planning units in spontaneous speech: some evidence from hesitation in speech and speaker gaze direction in conversation

Beattie¹

1979

Linguistics

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The aim of the present study was to attempt to elucidate the nature of the units of encoding involved in the generation of spontaneous speech, firstly through analysis of the distribution of hesitations in speech, and secondly through analysis of speaker gaze direction in conversation. These analyses suggested that both suprasentential units and simple clausal units are implicated in the encoding process. Moreover, evidence of encoding on a clausal basis was only obtained for speech produced during the planning phases of the larger, suprasentential units.

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“…The editors' hopes are further dashed by the willingness of the authors (Beebe, Stern & Jaffe, and Hayes & Cobb) to claim regularities ("kinesic rhythms" and "ultradian rhythms" respectively) for which they have no statistical evidence and which their illustrations make dubious. Co-author Jaffe's role in debunking Goldman-Eisler's earlier claims regarding rhythms (Jaffe, Breskin, & Gerstman 1972) regrettably did not prepare him to take an equally skeptical position here. SUSAN STEWART, Nonsense: Aspects of intertextuality in folklore and literature.…”

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Brief Notices/Publications Received

1981

Lang. Soc.

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Only two additional papers follow: a valuable discussion by Stig Eliasson of the need to recognize that some phonological rules are bidirectional, contrary to the generative view of them as all unidirectional; and a detailed study (Lyche) of the deletion of French schwa as seen in natural generative phonology. Language in Society regrets the errors. D. J. ALLERTON, EDWARD CARNEY, & DAVID HOLDCROFT (eds.), Function and context in linguistic analysis. A festschrift for William Haas. Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 228. It is a pleasure to note this well-deserved tribute to the scholar and linguist, William Haas, on the occasion of his retirement as Professor in the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Manchester. The book contains a short biography (1-3) and "The work of William Haas: An overview" by the editors (4-26), followed by a select bibliography (27-9). The distinguished group of contributors includes C.

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Random Generation of Apparent Speech Rhythms

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Temporal cycles in speech production

Temporal cycles in speech production

Planning units in spontaneous speech: some evidence from hesitation in speech and speaker gaze direction in conversation

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