Questions tagged [spoken-language]
A modality of language, contrasted with written language, whistled language or sign language.
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Is there a word for "mouth transitions" which describes the movement of a mouth which is saying one word, but preparing for the next?
I think I can produce every individual phoneme in standard-ish spoken Mandarin.
However, if I want to speak fluently I have to watch videos of people speaking and closely watch their mouths, because ...
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Is audio understanding in bad conditions (e.g. at a noisy market) different between languages?
I consider myself almost fluent in English, but have trouble understanding when the words are blended together. This includes for example noisy places, song lyrics, or accents. In Czech, I have no ...
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Speed listening
I have just heard that there are people out there (mostly blind people) using screen readers at overspeed, achieving speech rates twice as high as usual, and even higher.
What I want to know is: Are ...
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Hesitation markers like "uh, ehm" versus repetition
When listening to my 5-year-old son telling me a little story about dinosaurs, he used a lot of repetition in the following way:
"The triceratops… the triceratops used his horns… the triceratops ...
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Words per minute - language list?
I have an idea on how fast a Dutch speaker speaks:
130 wpm = medium
160 wpm = fast
100 wpm = slow
I'd like to have that same knowledge about other languages.
Is there a list somewhere that ...
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Are there any languages that have words for open and closing quotation marks in speech?
It seems to me that most languages have some way of bounding quotations in written form. European languages have their apostrophe quotes and angle-brackets, while eastern Asian languages have those ...
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Why is spoken Chinese so fast paced?
I'm fan of watching subbed Chinese movies and series and with them sometimes happens something that very rarely happens with movies or series from other languages that's the fact that I haven't been ...
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Common name for speech errors like Phoneme Deletion and Phoneme Substitution
I would like to know the common name for speech errors like phoneme deletion and phoneme substitution, just like there is word called "prosodic error" for stress error and intonation error. I have ...
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To what extent is aural language comprehension based on a post-processing model, and what are the factors involved?
It occurred to me that what we hear and interpret as speech is often an inarticulate garble of phonemes that native speakers process with lightning speed (usually) to come up with a clear and specific ...
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Does the concept of slang exist in cultures without established written or formal education traditions?
In English and, presumably, many of the world's other commonly spoken languages, there exists a rough category of words considered slang. This concept is not quite the same as taboo (many slang words ...
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Are there languages without fillers like "um" or "uh"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsMWbVrjucg&t=34s
According to this video (0:55) almost every language has those speech disfluencies. But ALMOST. Do languages exist that have no such sounds for ...
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Duplex perception experiment - Can I try it on my own?
I was reading about speech perception over headphones, “duplex perception” (Lieberman et al., 1981) — who note that when a speech stimulus was split into two parts and presented to different ears over ...
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What's the difference between articulatory features and articulatory gestures?
I'm confused about those two terms, but based on my understanding articulatory gestures are represented by the vocal tract variables and articulatory features include all units are involved in ...
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How to convert CHAT to TextGrid in a batch?
Siarad corpus is a corpus of spoken Welsh (~40 hours, all transcribed, glossed and translated!). I want to analyze some conversations using Praat. Praat uses the TextGrid format, but the Siarad corpus ...
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How to (automatically ) detect the steady-part of vowels?
Please I need your help ASAP,
I need to segment an audio corpus of 4 hours , and I need a tool or script to detect the steady part of vowels and place the boundaries .
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native speaker error rates
I am a native speaker of English, but I make (and notice others make) English mistakes all of the time; I change negative to positive and vice versa, I switch "he" and "she", I make spoonerisms, I ...
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Source of picture - Vocal apparatus
I hope it is not inadequate to ask this type of question but I would really like to know the source of the following image:
It is the ,,aparato fonador" and I do not search for similar images ...
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Can anyone help me to resolve an issue relating to F0 and audio data?
I made a textgrid of the sentence "I quite like cheese a lot." and created three tiers and marked the sentence, word (cheese) and the nucleus of cheese to examine the f0. Then I used a ...
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Incomplete sentences
I am looking for studies which looks at understanding and preference of incomplete sentences.
For example, is there a higher workload for (in)complete sentences or even though the sentence might be ...
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Isn't it misleading to call written representations of spoken languages as written languages?
In the following sentences I would refer to anything that can be used to denote something as a symbol.
Any language uses some kind of symbol to denote different things. I presume that any language ...
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Does a voice activated conversation with an AI constitute as natural speech?
Since AI bots fulfil all the requirements of speech, but don't fulfil the criteria of 'natural speech' production since it wasn't done impromptu and wasn't developed naturally, do you guys think that ...
