Frieda Goldman-Eisler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frieda Goldman-Eisler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frieda |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldman-Eisler |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDMAN-EISLER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
An Experimental Study of Interference Between Receptive and Productive Processes Involving Speech
An Experimental Study of Interference Between Receptive and Productive Processes Relating to Simultaneous Translation
The question of the interference between the reception and production of speech is basic to an understanding of the processes involved in simultaneous translation. This paper reports an experiment designed to throw light on this problem by controlling the level of interference between decoding and encoding speech using hesitancy as an indicator of interference. This proved effective in spotting the levels at which interference takes place. Encodi…
What Should Be the Methods in Psycholinguistics
Pauses, Clauses, Sentences
The tool of pause measurement was applied to the question of the psychological reality of syntactic structures in spontaneous speech. The material investigated covered a wide field of speech productions, of different speakers and different speech tasks. Their analysis showed that the hierarchy of syntactic structures is reflected differentially in the pause structure of spontaneous speech. When readings of the spontaneous texts were compared with…
Segmentation of input in simultaneous translation
Symmetry of Clauses and the Psychological Significance of Left-Branching
This paper deals with the questions of symmetry in sentence clauses, and of the psychological significance of left-branching. Texts based on spontaneous and prepared speech, drawn from populations ranging from political speakers to schizophrenic patients were analysed. The results showed that symmetry is not a characteristic of clauses and longer clauses consisting of five or more words to the left or right of the verb, or both, showed a signific…
Sequential Temporal Patterns and Cognitive Processes in Speech
Further evidence was found confirming that the successive speech and silence durations in spontaneous speech can have a regular structure, periods of considerable hesitancy alternating with periods of fluency in a rhythmic fashion. This structure, which it is suggested is due to a cognitive rhythm, although not evident in reading, was found however not to be specific to rational spontaneous speech, as was concluded by Henderson et al. The only ne…
Sequential Temporal Patterns in Spontaneous Speech
The successive speech and silence durations in selected passages of spontaneous speech were found to have a regular structure. Relatively long pauses tended to occur with short utterances and these periods alternated with periods in which relatively short pauses and long utterances occurred together. Other hesitation phenomena appear to be associated more with the periods characterised by the longer pauses than with the periods characterised by l…
Cognitive and Neurochemical Determination of Sentence Structure
Sentence structure as measured in terms of the proportion of subordinate propositions in utterances was studied when different degrees of cognitive complexity were involved in responding to verbal tasks, and under drug as well as no drug conditions. Not only does level of cognitive complexity seem to find its reflection in the complexity of sentence structure, but both factors seem to interact with the action of neuroleptic drugs such as chlorpro…
Temporal Patterns of Cognitive Activity and Breath Control in Speech
Two aspects of spontaneous speech, the cognitive and the syntactic, were examined as potential regulators of the incidence of breathing during speech. During passages of prose read aloud breaths were taken exclusively at gaps in speech designated as grammatical junctures. During samples of spontaneous speech approximately one third of the breaths were taken at gaps in speech which could not be so described. The sequential temporal structuring of …
The Predictability of Words in Context and the Length of Pauses in Speech
Journal Article The Predictability of Words in Context and the Length of Pauses in Speech Get access Frieda Goldman-Eisler Frieda Goldman-Eisler 1Mrs. F. Goldman-Eisler, who holds the degree of Dr. Phil. (Vienna) and who did her postgraduate research at University College, London, is Research Associate in the Department of Phonetics of the latter institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Commu…
Continuity of Speech Utterance, its Determinants and its Significance
Pause frequency and word length of speech sequences uttered without break (referred to as “phrases”) were measured, using speech produced under a variety of conditions. Several subjects were recorded in each condition. Individual differences as well as differences due to change of speech situation were highly significant. The significance of continuity in speech production is discussed in the light of the specific nature of these various differen…
The Significance of Changes in the Rate of Articulation
The term “rate of articulation” is applied to the absolute rate of speech, i.e. the rate based on the time of vocal speech utterance exclusive of pauses. The significance of its changes was studied in relation to changes in levels of verbal planning and in degrees of spontaneity. The effect of individual differences was also investigated. While articulation rate proved to be a personality constant of remarkable invariance it also reflects the deg…
A Comparative Study of two Hesitation Phenomena
The durations of hesitation devices such as the sounds /α, ∊, æ, r, ∂, m/, also called filled pauses, were measured and compared with the durations of silent hesitations or unfilled pauses. Their individual consistency and psychological significance were also investigated and the relation to uncertainty of filled pauses and unfilled pauses respectively was compared. It appears that under certain conditions of speech production the two hesitation …
The Distribution of Pause Durations in Speech
The subject of this paper is the duration of individual pauses and their distribution over extensive tracts of speech uttered in a variety of situations. The determinants isolated include individuals and conditions of speech utterance (social, emotional, cognitive). The analysis of pause time into duration of individual pauses and pause frequency was shown to be more powerful in gauging the type of decision involved in the production of speech th…
Speech Production and the Predictability of Words in Context
The purpose of the experiments was to examine the function of hesitation pauses in speech. Pauses were conceived of as anticipating increase of information in subsequent speech and as involving acts of choice. This hypothesis was tested by relating the incidence of pauses within sentences to the transition probabilities of the words constituting them. Estimates of these probabilities were obtained experimentally by an adaptation of Shannon's gues…
The Predictability of Words in Context and the Length of Pauses in Speech
Fluency and hesitation in spontaneous speech have previously been shown to be symptomatic of variations in word transition probability. The purpose of the present experiment was to corroborate this conclusion by evidence demonstrating the influence of transition probability (amount of information) on selective behaviour stimulated in an experimental situation. An experiment in sentence completion was designed in such a way as to recreate the cond…
Speech Analysis and Mental Processes
The contribution of speech analysis to the scientific study of the processes involved in psychotherapy is reviewed. Objective measures of the mental processes underlying the act of speech resulting from speech analysis are reported, the problem of linking these to physiological states discussed, and examples presented of such relationships. The analysis of the rate and nature of speech production in particular is shown to have led to the isolatio…
Speech-breathing Activity-a Measure of Tension and Affect During Interviews
Pauses, Clauses, Sentences
The tool of pause measurement was applied to the question of the psychological reality of syntactic structures in spontaneous speech. The material investigated covered a wide field of speech productions, of different speakers and different speech tasks. Their analysis showed that the hierarchy of syntactic structures is reflected differentially in the pause structure of spontaneous speech. When readings of the spontaneous texts were compared with…
Sequential Temporal Patterns in Spontaneous Speech
The successive speech and silence durations in selected passages of spontaneous speech were found to have a regular structure. Relatively long pauses tended to occur with short utterances and these periods alternated with periods in which relatively short pauses and long utterances occurred together. Other hesitation phenomena appear to be associated more with the periods characterised by the longer pauses than with the periods characterised by l…
A Comparative Study of two Hesitation Phenomena
The durations of hesitation devices such as the sounds /α, ∊, æ, r, ∂, m/, also called filled pauses, were measured and compared with the durations of silent hesitations or unfilled pauses. Their individual consistency and psychological significance were also investigated and the relation to uncertainty of filled pauses and unfilled pauses respectively was compared. It appears that under certain conditions of speech production the two hesitation …
The Significance of Changes in the Rate of Articulation
The term “rate of articulation” is applied to the absolute rate of speech, i.e. the rate based on the time of vocal speech utterance exclusive of pauses. The significance of its changes was studied in relation to changes in levels of verbal planning and in degrees of spontaneity. The effect of individual differences was also investigated. While articulation rate proved to be a personality constant of remarkable invariance it also reflects the deg…
The Predictability of Words in Context and the Length of Pauses in Speech
Fluency and hesitation in spontaneous speech have previously been shown to be symptomatic of variations in word transition probability. The purpose of the present experiment was to corroborate this conclusion by evidence demonstrating the influence of transition probability (amount of information) on selective behaviour stimulated in an experimental situation. An experiment in sentence completion was designed in such a way as to recreate the cond…
Sequential Temporal Patterns and Cognitive Processes in Speech
Further evidence was found confirming that the successive speech and silence durations in spontaneous speech can have a regular structure, periods of considerable hesitancy alternating with periods of fluency in a rhythmic fashion. This structure, which it is suggested is due to a cognitive rhythm, although not evident in reading, was found however not to be specific to rational spontaneous speech, as was concluded by Henderson et al. The only ne…
The Distribution of Pause Durations in Speech
The subject of this paper is the duration of individual pauses and their distribution over extensive tracts of speech uttered in a variety of situations. The determinants isolated include individuals and conditions of speech utterance (social, emotional, cognitive). The analysis of pause time into duration of individual pauses and pause frequency was shown to be more powerful in gauging the type of decision involved in the production of speech th…
Segmentation of input in simultaneous translation
Continuity of Speech Utterance, its Determinants and its Significance
Pause frequency and word length of speech sequences uttered without break (referred to as “phrases”) were measured, using speech produced under a variety of conditions. Several subjects were recorded in each condition. Individual differences as well as differences due to change of speech situation were highly significant. The significance of continuity in speech production is discussed in the light of the specific nature of these various differen…
Speech Analysis and Mental Processes
The contribution of speech analysis to the scientific study of the processes involved in psychotherapy is reviewed. Objective measures of the mental processes underlying the act of speech resulting from speech analysis are reported, the problem of linking these to physiological states discussed, and examples presented of such relationships. The analysis of the rate and nature of speech production in particular is shown to have led to the isolatio…
Temporal Patterns of Cognitive Activity and Breath Control in Speech
Two aspects of spontaneous speech, the cognitive and the syntactic, were examined as potential regulators of the incidence of breathing during speech. During passages of prose read aloud breaths were taken exclusively at gaps in speech designated as grammatical junctures. During samples of spontaneous speech approximately one third of the breaths were taken at gaps in speech which could not be so described. The sequential temporal structuring of …
Speech-breathing Activity-a Measure of Tension and Affect During Interviews
Speech-breathing Activity-a Measure of Tension and Affect During Interviews
Speech Production and the Predictability of Words in Context
The purpose of the experiments was to examine the function of hesitation pauses in speech. Pauses were conceived of as anticipating increase of information in subsequent speech and as involving acts of choice. This hypothesis was tested by relating the incidence of pauses within sentences to the transition probabilities of the words constituting them. Estimates of these probabilities were obtained experimentally by an adaptation of Shannon's gues…
The Predictability of Words in Context and the Length of Pauses in Speech
Fluency and hesitation in spontaneous speech have previously been shown to be symptomatic of variations in word transition probability. The purpose of the present experiment was to corroborate this conclusion by evidence demonstrating the influence of transition probability (amount of information) on selective behaviour stimulated in an experimental situation. An experiment in sentence completion was designed in such a way as to recreate the cond…
Speech Analysis and Mental Processes
The contribution of speech analysis to the scientific study of the processes involved in psychotherapy is reviewed. Objective measures of the mental processes underlying the act of speech resulting from speech analysis are reported, the problem of linking these to physiological states discussed, and examples presented of such relationships. The analysis of the rate and nature of speech production in particular is shown to have led to the isolatio…
The Predictability of Words in Context and the Length of Pauses in Speech
Journal Article The Predictability of Words in Context and the Length of Pauses in Speech Get access Frieda Goldman-Eisler Frieda Goldman-Eisler 1Mrs. F. Goldman-Eisler, who holds the degree of Dr. Phil. (Vienna) and who did her postgraduate research at University College, London, is Research Associate in the Department of Phonetics of the latter institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Commu…
Continuity of Speech Utterance, its Determinants and its Significance
Pause frequency and word length of speech sequences uttered without break (referred to as “phrases”) were measured, using speech produced under a variety of conditions. Several subjects were recorded in each condition. Individual differences as well as differences due to change of speech situation were highly significant. The significance of continuity in speech production is discussed in the light of the specific nature of these various differen…
The Significance of Changes in the Rate of Articulation
The term “rate of articulation” is applied to the absolute rate of speech, i.e. the rate based on the time of vocal speech utterance exclusive of pauses. The significance of its changes was studied in relation to changes in levels of verbal planning and in degrees of spontaneity. The effect of individual differences was also investigated. While articulation rate proved to be a personality constant of remarkable invariance it also reflects the deg…
A Comparative Study of two Hesitation Phenomena
The durations of hesitation devices such as the sounds /α, ∊, æ, r, ∂, m/, also called filled pauses, were measured and compared with the durations of silent hesitations or unfilled pauses. Their individual consistency and psychological significance were also investigated and the relation to uncertainty of filled pauses and unfilled pauses respectively was compared. It appears that under certain conditions of speech production the two hesitation …
The Distribution of Pause Durations in Speech
The subject of this paper is the duration of individual pauses and their distribution over extensive tracts of speech uttered in a variety of situations. The determinants isolated include individuals and conditions of speech utterance (social, emotional, cognitive). The analysis of pause time into duration of individual pauses and pause frequency was shown to be more powerful in gauging the type of decision involved in the production of speech th…
Cognitive and Neurochemical Determination of Sentence Structure
Sentence structure as measured in terms of the proportion of subordinate propositions in utterances was studied when different degrees of cognitive complexity were involved in responding to verbal tasks, and under drug as well as no drug conditions. Not only does level of cognitive complexity seem to find its reflection in the complexity of sentence structure, but both factors seem to interact with the action of neuroleptic drugs such as chlorpro…
Temporal Patterns of Cognitive Activity and Breath Control in Speech
Two aspects of spontaneous speech, the cognitive and the syntactic, were examined as potential regulators of the incidence of breathing during speech. During passages of prose read aloud breaths were taken exclusively at gaps in speech designated as grammatical junctures. During samples of spontaneous speech approximately one third of the breaths were taken at gaps in speech which could not be so described. The sequential temporal structuring of …
Sequential Temporal Patterns in Spontaneous Speech
The successive speech and silence durations in selected passages of spontaneous speech were found to have a regular structure. Relatively long pauses tended to occur with short utterances and these periods alternated with periods in which relatively short pauses and long utterances occurred together. Other hesitation phenomena appear to be associated more with the periods characterised by the longer pauses than with the periods characterised by l…
Sequential Temporal Patterns and Cognitive Processes in Speech
Further evidence was found confirming that the successive speech and silence durations in spontaneous speech can have a regular structure, periods of considerable hesitancy alternating with periods of fluency in a rhythmic fashion. This structure, which it is suggested is due to a cognitive rhythm, although not evident in reading, was found however not to be specific to rational spontaneous speech, as was concluded by Henderson et al. The only ne…
Symmetry of Clauses and the Psychological Significance of Left-Branching
This paper deals with the questions of symmetry in sentence clauses, and of the psychological significance of left-branching. Texts based on spontaneous and prepared speech, drawn from populations ranging from political speakers to schizophrenic patients were analysed. The results showed that symmetry is not a characteristic of clauses and longer clauses consisting of five or more words to the left or right of the verb, or both, showed a signific…
What Should Be the Methods in Psycholinguistics
Pauses, Clauses, Sentences
The tool of pause measurement was applied to the question of the psychological reality of syntactic structures in spontaneous speech. The material investigated covered a wide field of speech productions, of different speakers and different speech tasks. Their analysis showed that the hierarchy of syntactic structures is reflected differentially in the pause structure of spontaneous speech. When readings of the spontaneous texts were compared with…
Segmentation of input in simultaneous translation
An Experimental Study of Interference Between Receptive and Productive Processes Relating to Simultaneous Translation
The question of the interference between the reception and production of speech is basic to an understanding of the processes involved in simultaneous translation. This paper reports an experiment designed to throw light on this problem by controlling the level of interference between decoding and encoding speech using hesitancy as an indicator of interference. This proved effective in spotting the levels at which interference takes place. Encodi…
An Experimental Study of Interference Between Receptive and Productive Processes Involving Speech
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