Abstract
Measuring prosodic deficits in oral discourse by speakers with fluent aphasia
Highlights
Prosody refers to the part of phonology that includes speech rhythm, stress, and intonation (Gandour, 1998)
The current study proposed a computer-assisted method for systematic and objective examination of intonation patterns in aphasic oral discourse
Since surface F0 contour is the result of complicated interplay between sentence-level intonation and syllable-level lexical tones, the challenge is on how to extract meaningful representations of intonation from acoustic signals
Summary
Prosody refers to the part of phonology that includes speech rhythm, stress, and intonation (Gandour, 1998). The current study proposed a computer-assisted method for systematic and objective examination of intonation patterns in aphasic oral discourse. The speech materials were in Hong Kong Cantonese, which is known of being rich in tones. Since surface F0 contour is the result of complicated interplay between sentence-level intonation and syllable-level lexical tones, the challenge is on how to extract meaningful representations of intonation from acoustic signals.
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