Prosody

Prosodic Changes in the Speech of a Single Speaker with Parkinson's Disease

This longitudinal study tracks prosodic changes in a single speaker with Parkinson's Disease over a year, finding decreased pitch variation and perceived speech healthiness over time.

Aug 1, 2019

Perception of L2 lexical stress in words degraded by a cochlear implant simulation

This study examines how cochlear implant simulations affect the perception of L2 lexical stress, finding that Dutch listeners transfer their L1 stress identification strategies to L2 English.

Aug 1, 2019

Prosodic and Segmental Correlates of Spontaneous Dutch Speech in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study

We analyzed prosodic and segmental acoustic measures in spontaneous speech of Dutch Parkinson's Disease patients, finding monopitch trends, reduced speech rate, and vowel centralization compared to healthy controls.

Jun 1, 2018

Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Vowel Articulation in Parkinson's Disease With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study

We investigated how cognitive impairment affects vowel articulation in Parkinson's Disease patients, finding centralized vowel formants, increased frequency variability, and reduced intelligibility compared to healthy controls.

Sep 12, 2017

Word and Phrasal Stress Disentangled: Pitch Peak Alignment in Frisian and Dutch Declarative Structures

We investigated pitch peak alignment in Frisian and Dutch declarative sentences, finding that both languages show delays compared to previous research, with Frisian exhibiting stronger delay in focus realization.

Jun 1, 2016