Abstract

Grammatical pauses in speech generally occur at a clause boundary, presumably due to parsing and planning; however, pausing can occur at grammatically inappropriate locations when planning, production, and/or lexical access processes are disrupted. Real‐time MRI of spontaneous speech production (responses to queries like “tell me about your family,” etc.) was used for seven subjects to examine the articulatory manifestations of grammatical and ungrammatical pauses (manually classified as such by two experimenters depending on the presence/absence of a clausal juncture). Measures quantifying the speed of articulators were developed and applied during these pauses as well as their immediate neighborhoods. Results indicate a consistently higher articulatory speed and spatial range for grammatical compared to ungrammatical pauses, and an appreciable drop in speed for grammatical pauses …

Date

2009

Authors

Vikram Ramanarayanan, Erik Bresch, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S Narayanan

Journal

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volume

125

Issue

4_Supplement

Pages

2573-2573

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America