The Relationship between Prosody and Breathing in Spontaneous Discourse  

Oleh:

Hird, Kathryn ; KIRSNER, KIM

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 80 no. 3 (2002), page 536-555.
Topik: prosody; declination; resetting; discourse; conversation; acoustic analysis; breath units; right hemisphere damage; parsing; pragmatics
Fulltext: 80_03_Hird.pdf (94.17KB)

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This article is concerned with the role of prosody in discourse. Three experiments explored the relationship between inspiration, declination, and syntactic boundaries in normal and RHD participants. Fundamental frequency and intensity were measured at the beginning and end of breath units excised from conversational samples. The results revealed evidence of declination of intensity in all samples measured. However, resetting of fundamental frequency was observed only in the samples of normal participants and then only when a breath coincided with the beginning of a sentence. The results suggest that resetting and declination play separate roles in discourse parsing.

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