Pause insertion and its effect in spontaneous speech and read speech

• Project/Area Number: 23520468
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Toyama Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: KAKITA Kuniko 富山県立大学, 工学部, 教授 (10148827)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
• Keywords: ポーズ / 調音調節 / 自発発話 / 読み上げ発話

Research Abstract

The effect of pause insertion in spontaneous speech and read speech of five native speakers of Japanese was analyzed acoustically. Spontaneous speech was characterized by a larger number of intra-sentential pauses (three to four times the number in read speech) and shorter utterance chunks between pauses (about half the size in read speech). In spontaneous speech, fast speakers tended to use longer inter-sentential pauses, while slow speakers tended to use shorter inter-sentential pauses. The voice pitch tended to be more monotonous in spontaneous speech.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The 'panphonic' text of 'The North Wind and the Sun' for the illustration of the International Phonetic Alphabet of Japanese consonants and its use in the phonetic analysis of Japanese speech. (2013)
  • Author(s): Shizuo Hiki and Kuniko Kakita
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics Volume: 19 Pages: 60285-60285
  • DOI: 10.1121/1.4800255
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Durational properties of pauses and utterances in the production of connected speech (2013)
  • Author(s): Kuniko Kakita
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics Volume: Vol.1 Pages: 103-106
  • DOI: 10.5176/2251-3566_l313.65
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] The 'panphonic' text of 'The North Wind and the Sun' for the illustration of the International Phonetic Alphabet of Japanese consonants and its use in the phonetic analysis of Japanese speech (2013)
  • Author(s): S. Hiki and K. Kakita
  • Organizer: 21st International Congress on Acoustics
  • Place of Presentation: Montreal
• [Presentation] Durational properties of pauses and utterances in the production of connected speech (2013)
  • Author(s): K. Kakita
  • Organizer: 2nd Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: Singapore
• [Presentation] Properties of the duration of pauses in the recitation of a Japanese text (2012)
  • Author(s): Shizuo Hiki and Kuniko Kakita
  • Organizer: Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong
  • Place of Presentation: Hong Kong
  • Year and Date: 2012-05-15
• [Presentation] The effect of pause insertion on the temporal organization of connected utterances (2012)
  • Author(s): Kuniko Kakita
  • Organizer: GSCP 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-02
• [Presentation] Properties of the duration of pauses in the recitation of a Japanese text (2012)
  • Author(s): S. Hiki and K. Kakita
  • Organizer: Acoustics 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Hong Kong
• [Presentation] The effect of pause insertion on the temporal organization of connected utterances (2012)
  • Author(s): Kuniko Kakita
  • Organizer: GSCP 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Belo Horizonte, Brazil