In this overview we describe literature on how speech production and speech perception
change in healthy or normal aging across the adult lifespan. In the production section we …

Purpose This study investigated whether intonation is influenced by age and gender and
obtained normative data for the intonation of Flemish (Belgian Dutch) speaking cis women …

Linguistic prosody, as in prosodic boundaries, can be used to resolve syntactic ambiguities.
Such syntactic ambiguities exist in coordinated sequences of more than two elements (eg …

Sun, recorded by two groups of six female speakers aged between 19-23 and 79-88 years,
we found significant differences in pitch span, minimum F0, syllable, intonation phrase and …

Although research on foreign language learning among seniors has recently accelerated,
studies on L2 phonology in this age group remain scarce. Seniors may be at a great …

A beszédkutatás egyik alapkérdése, hogy milyen egységekre tagolható a folyamatos
spontán beszéd, és milyen akusztikai fonetikai paraméterek mentén különölnek el …

Elderly speech has been found challenging for automatic speech recognition systems due to
the lack of suitable training data and due to age-related physiological changes affecting the …

A large number of studies investigated the differences in f0 characteristics between reading
aloud (RA) and spontaneous speech (SpS) in various languages. Their basic assumption …

Strings of words can correspond to more than one interpretation or underlying structure,
which makes them ambiguous. Prosody can be used to resolve this structural ambiguity …

What is “voice quality”? John Laver, a pioneer in the study of voice quality, describes voice
quality as changes in the general sounding of one's voice, the “overall, auditory coloring of …