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Methods for quantifying on-off speech patterns under delayed auditory feedback

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Changes in the on-off patterns of speech under delayed auditory feedback (DAF) have been represented by gross measures such as total reading time, percent phonation time, and total pause time. The research reported in the present paper employed an analog-to-digital converter to assess changes (from normal speech to DAF speech) in 11 descriptive measures derived from the distribution of pause and vocalization durations. These measures reflected variations in individual speech performance under DAF which were consistent with the subjective ratings of the authors. It was concluded that independent correlates of subject, task, and environmental variables would be required to determine the usefulness of these measures.

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  1. Department of Communication Sciences, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York

    Stephen Breskin, Louis J. Gerstman & Joseph Jaffe

  2. City College, The City University of New York, New York, New York

    Louis J. Gerstman

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This research was supported by the Department of Mental Hygiene, New York State, and by a General Research Support grant from the National Institute for Mental Health to the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.

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Breskin, S., Gerstman, L.J. & Jaffe, J. Methods for quantifying on-off speech patterns under delayed auditory feedback. J Psycholinguist Res 1, 89–98 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066938

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Keywords

  • Environmental Variable
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Subjective Rating
  • Reading Time
  • Auditory Feedback