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Temporal Characteristics of the Speech of Normal Elderly Adults
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A number of physical and psychological changes occur as a result of the normal aging process. These changes often result in an increase in the time subjects require to perform various motor (and sensory) tasks. Although the effects of aging upon a variety of behaviors have been quite well documented, considerably less information is available concerning how normal aging may affect speech production. The present study examined temporal characteristics of the speech of 10 normal, elderly adults and 10 young adults who produced a variety of words and sentences at both normal and fast speaking rates. Acoustic analyses indicated that the elderly adults' segment, syllable, and sentence durations were 20 to 25% longer than those of the young adults at both the normal and the fast rates of speech. In addition to comparisons that were made between these two groups of subjects, comparisons were also made with durations of the speech of young children studied in previous research. It was observed that the elderly subjects tended to produce durations comparable to those of 6- and 7-year-old children.
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“Sources of variability commonly found in normal speech including accent or gender, when further compounded with those over age and speech pathology severity, create large diversity among dysarthric and elderly speakers [39], [51].”
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Geng, M., Xie, X., Ye, Z., Wang, T., Li, G., Hu, S., Liu, X., & Meng, H. (2022) · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing · doi:10.1109/taslp.2022.3195113 · Cited by 48
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- Authors
- Smith, B. L., Wasowicz, J., & Preston, J.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Published
- 1987-12
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 522-529
- ISSN
- 1092-4388 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-9102
- OpenAlex
- W1964198739
- Cited by
- 129
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 0.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Northwestern University
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Voice and Speech Disorders
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Keywords
- normal aging, speech production, segment duration, syllable duration, sentence duration, speech rate, older adults, speech acoustics
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aging, Female, Humans, Male, Phonetics, Reference Values, Sound Spectrography, Speech, Speech Acoustics, Speech Production Measurement
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