title: The relationship between prosody and breathing in spontaneous discourse.
abstract: 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 RHD 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. thirdkm@alpha2.curtin.edu.au
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hird
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kirsner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012119:Respiration; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*