Ефектът на пола и възрастта върху темпа на четена българска реч
Temporal characteristics of read Bulgarian speech

Author(s): Bistra Andreeva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Language acquisition, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Computational linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: read Bulgarian speech; speech ratе; articulation rate; sex; age
Summary/Abstract: The present study investigates the effect of sex and age on the temporal characteristics of read Bulgarian speech, as well as the impact of different methods of measuring speaking rate. The analysed material is continuous read speech from the multilingual speech database BABEL. Three cognitively linked short passages containing 5thematically related sentences were read by 60 speakers (30 male and 30 female). The total length of the analysed material is 70.14 minutes. The results of the statistical analysis, carried out using linear mixed models (LMM),show that speaking rate decreases with age for both sexes, with men speaking faster than women. No significant differences were found in the proportion of pauses. The study provides reference data on speech rate, articulation rate, and pausation in read Bulgarian speech, thus establishing a foundation for future comparisons and analyses.

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