PHONOLOGICAL MEAN LENGTH OF UTTERANCE AS AN INDICATOR OF TYPICAL AND IMPAIRED PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN ACQUIRING FINNISH Katri Saaristo-Helin University of Helsinki, FIN The aim of this study was to examine the applicability of the Phonological Mean Length of Utterance (pMLU) method to the data of children acquiring Finnish, for both typically developing children and children with a...

This study compared the prosody of sarcastic and sincere attitudes in Mexican Spanish in terms of three sentence-level factors (i.e. fundamental frequency (F0) mean, F0 range, and speed of speech) and three word-level factors (i.e. stressed syllable duration, F0 movement, and stressed vowel intensity). For F0, the connection between utterance-final activity and attitude was also examined. Acous...

PURPOSE The mean length of children's utterances is a valuable estimate of their early language acquisition. The available normative data lack documentation of language and nonverbal intelligence levels of the samples. This study reports age-referenced mean length of utterance (MLU) data from children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children without language impairments. METHOD Of...

This paper proposes a combination of source-normalized weighted linear discriminant analysis (SN-WLDA) and short utterance variance (SUV) PLDA modelling to improve the short utterance PLDA speaker verification. As short-length utterance i-vectors vary with the speaker, session variations and phonetic content of the utterance (utterance variation), a combined approach of SN-WLDA projection and S...

For this study, an experiment was created to test for the existence of tonal preplanning in Puerto Rican Spanish. The scaling of utterance-initial F0 high peaks was examined as a function of utterance length, which was defined as total utterance duration (in seconds). Eight speakers from Caguas, Puerto Rico, were recorded reading 24 distinct utterances of varying length for analysis. The data r...

This paper discusses language acquisition in children aged two and three. The analysis was carried out on a corpus of child compiled during research conducted at kindergarten Sarajevo among three who acquire their native the area Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina. Qualitative quantitative methods were applied analysis. development production measured by Mean Length Utterance, based number words per ...