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Conversational Speech Characteristics During Entrainment, Pamela Molnar
Conversational Speech Characteristics During Entrainment, Pamela Molnar
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
This study examined the acoustic characteristics of conversational speech associated with entrainment, which is the tendency for communicative behaviors of individuals engaged in a given communication context to become alike (Borrie & Liss, 2014). The study adopted a within-speaker approach to evaluate changes in speech production characteristics relative to the given individual, defined as the repeated speaker. Across experiment sessions, the repeated speaker interacted with different communication partners, who were defined as the non-repeated speakers. In each session, the repeated speaker and one non-repeated speaker engaged in a series of tasks in the following order: conversation, interactive picture description task, …
The Relationship Between Fundamental Frequency Variation And Articulation In Healthy Speech Production, Casey Behre
The Relationship Between Fundamental Frequency Variation And Articulation In Healthy Speech Production, Casey Behre
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
Fundamental Frequency (F0) and articulation are two factors of speech production that impact speech perception, and yet the potential interactions of these two factors are not well understood. Their relationship has potential theoretical as well as clinical implications. This Honors Project aims to better understand this relationship by examining changes in fundamental frequency (F0) and the acoustic vowel space as an index of articulatory behaviors with a within-speaker approach. Specifically, F0 variations were examined in relation to the acoustic vowel space for 10 male native speakers of American English. Two sets of acoustic measures were made to evaluate F0 and …