title: Temporal characteristics of speech: the effect of age and speech style.
abstract: Aging affects temporal characteristics of speech. It is still a question how these changes occur in different speech styles which require various cognitive skills. In this paper speech rate, articulation rate, and pauses of 20 young and 20 old speakers are analyzed in four speech styles: spontaneous narrative, narrative recalls, a three-participant conversation, and reading aloud. Results show that age has a significant effect only on speech rate, articulation rate, and frequency of pauses. Speech style has a higher effect on temporal parameters than speakers' age.
authors.affiliation: Department of Phonetics, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt 4/A, Hungary bona.judit@btk.elte.hu.
authors.forename: Judit
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bóna
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D010700:Phonetics; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013997:Time Factors; D014833:Voice Quality; D055815:Young Adult