Individual patterns of disfluency across speaking styles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19535625 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirsty Mcdougall (University of Cambridge), Martin Duckworth |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-230 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Speech Language and the Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-8885 • E-ISSN: 1748-8893 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1558/ijsll.37241 |
| OpenAlex | W2904454089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Features of speech related to fluency such as filled and silent pauses, sound prolongations, repetitions and self-interruptions exhibit considerable variation among speakers, yet the speaker-specificity of such features has received little attention inforensic phonetic research. The present study investigates the extent to which individual differences in disfluency behaviour are preserved across different speaking styles, a key concern for forensic speaker comparison cases. Disfluency phenomena in the speech of 20 male speakers of Standard Southern British English undertaking a simulated police interview task are compared with the occurrence of the same set of phenomena in the speech of the same speakers participating in a telephone conversation with an ‘accomplice’. The speakers’ disfluency features are analysed using TOFFA ‘Taxonomy of Fluency Features for Forensic Analysis’ (McDougall and Duckworth 2017). Individuals exhibit a wide range of variation in their overall rate of production of disfluency features, and these rates are relatively consistent within-speaker across interview and telephone styles. The results for each specific disfluency feature type also show patterns of relatively consistent behaviour within-speaker across-style for most features. For both interview and telephone styles, discriminant analyses based on speaker profiles of disfluency features demonstrate that disfluency features carry speaker-specific information which could be considered alongside other analyses in forensic speaker comparison cases
Categorization · Conversation · Fluency · Linguistics · Communication · Computer Science · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis · Stuttering Research and Treatment
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |