The Relationship between Prosody and Breathing in Spontaneous Discourse

K. Hird; Kim Kirsner

doi:10.1006/brln.2001.2613

The Relationship between Prosody and Breathing in Spontaneous Discourse

K. Hird, Kim Kirsner

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This article is concerned with the role of prosody in discourse. Three experiments explored the relationship between inspiration, declination, and syntactic boundaries in normal and RIM participants. Fundamental frequency and intensity were measured at the beginning and end of breath units excised from conversational samples. The results revealed evidence of declination of intensity in all samples measured. However, resetting of fundamental frequency was observed only in the samples of normal participants and then only when a breath coincided with the beginning of a sentence. The results suggest that resetting and declination play separate roles in discourse parsing, (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	536-555
Journal	Brain and Language
Volume	80
Issue number	N/A
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/brln.2001.2613
Publication status	Published - 2002

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