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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"articulation rate"”.
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A Study of Temporal Variables in English and Korean: Cross-Linguistic, Development, and Native/nonnative Analyses
… included were primary temporal variables (speech rate, articulation rate, pause-time ratio, mean length of runs, and mean length of pauses), secondary temporal variables (repeats, false starts, parenthetical remarks, drawls, unfilled pauses, and filled pauses), and temporal cycles. Comparisons …
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The processing of formulaic language on elicited imitation tasks by second language speakers
… to EI tasks were automatically measured for articulation rate (AR) and number of silent pauses (NumSP), two important measures of L2 fluency. Repeated measures ANOVAs were conducted to examine the main and interaction effects of FS and sentence length (SL) on AR and NumSP. ^ Results of …
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Prosodic Phrasing in Spontaneous Swedish
… phrase boundaries is investigated in a study on articulation rate changes within the prosodic phrase. Evidence of phrase-final lengthening, a reduction of the articulation rate in the final part of the prosodic phrase, is found. The tonal means used to signal coherence within the prosodic phrase …
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Auditory-motor integration influences on speech motor control and fluency: a comparison of normally fluent speakers and people who stutter
… of SLD and speech errors (SE), and decreased articulation rate (AR) when speaking under DAF relative to speaking under amplified non-delayed condition (aNAF). Sex had a limited differential effect on other disfluencies (OD) and AR whereas task effects were seen in OD, SE, and AR. Neither sex …
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The impact of voice on trust attributions
… show that standard accents, high pitch, slow articulation rate and smiling voice generally increase trusting behaviours towards a virtual agent, and a synthetic voice generally elicits higher trustworthiness judgments towards a robot. The findings also suggest that different voice …
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Estimation problems in speech and natural language
… vocabulary of the underlying population that generates an observation and show that it has theoretical guarantees of optimal performance. Using natural language corpora from different languages we show that the performance of our estimator compares favorably with that of state-of-the-art …
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Automatic assessment and feature-based characterisation of oral narratives for Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
… an urgent need for early intervention. Accurate assessment is essential for identifying children who need support, but current methods rely on human judgement, which is resource-intensive and susceptible to inconsistencies. To address this, we design an automatic scoring system for …