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Speech breathing and prosody during statement and question productions in seven-year-old children
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- Author / Creator
- Papadopoulos, Georgina Paulette Maria
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of prosodic contrasts in
differing contextual scenarios (e.g., questions, statements) on acoustic measures and
speech breathing parameters in children. Twelve English-speaking 7-year-old children
participated. Structured and unstructured speaking tasks were used to elicit productions
of questions and statements. Speech breathing measures included: lung volume
initiations, terminations, and excursions, and number of syllables per breath group.
Acoustic measures included: f0 average, f0 slope, dB average, and syllable duration.
Significant differences were observed for acoustic measures associated with questions
and statements in both structured and unstructured tasks and only f0 slope was found
significant different in both tasks. Also, one breathing measure in the unstructured task
had significance difference for questions and statements. Results of the study
demonstrated that 7-year old children appeared to use mainly laryngeal adjustments to
mark prosodic contrasts in structured conditions eliciting question and statement
productions. -
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- Graduation date
- Spring 2014
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Master of Science
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.