Abstract Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an ever-growing field of computational science that aims to model natural human language. Combined with advances in machine …
• FluencyBank has developed one new computational tool (FluCalc) for fluency researchers and clinicians, and offers additional computational utilities for clinical appraisal of …
Students may encounter problems concentrating during a lecture due to various reasons, which can be related to the educator's accent or the student's auditory difficulties. This may …
G Kavé, M Goral - Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We conducted a comprehensive literature review of studies of word retrieval in connected speech in healthy aging and reviewed relevant aphasia research that could shed light on …
Research on age-related changes in speech has primarily focused on comparing “young” vs.“elderly” adults. Yet, listeners are able to guess talker age more accurately than a binary …
Speech disfluencies such as repeated words and pauses provide information about the cognitive systems underlying speech production. Understanding whether older age leads to …
This paper investigates the emergence of lexicalized effects of word usage on word duration by looking at parallel changes in usage and duration over 130 years in New Zealand …
G DeDe, C Salis - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of the language characteristics of people with latent aphasia using measures that examined temporal (ie …
C Fougeron, F Guitard-Ivent, V Delvaux - Languages, 2021 - mdpi.com
We present a multidimensional acoustic report describing variation in speech productions on data collected from 500 francophone adult speakers (20 to 93 yoa) as a function of age …