Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0663825

Funded Activity Summary

The effects of sentence structure on consonant and vowel articulations. Whilst machine-generated speech is generally of good quality at the level of the single word, it is noticeably less natural-sounding at the level of the sentence. This project examines an important aspect of the naturalness of human speech, namely, the effect that sentence structure has on individual consonants and vowels. A break-down of this naturalness is seen in some speakers who have suffered traumatic brain injury: such speakers perform well when asked to utter a short word, but struggle when asked to produce a longer string of sounds. A better understanding of the interaction between speech sounds and sentence structure will lead to improvements in the treatment of speech disorders, and in the quality of human-machine communication.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-10-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $150,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science | Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science | Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension) | Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Linguistics

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