Temporal properties of spontaneous speech - a syllable-centric perspective

By Steven Greenberg, Hannah Carvey, Leah Hitchcock, Shuangyu Chang. J. Phonetics, 2003

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Signal Processing

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The Natural Statistics of Audiovisual Speech (2009, background): “Third, we observe that both facial movements and voice envelopes are temporally modulated in the 2– 7 Hz frequency range, which overlaps with the timescale of the syllable [11,14].”
Dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment: The Role of Phonology and Auditory Processing (2010, background): “It is therefore likely that difficulties in rise time perception will affect syllabic segmentation as well as the accurate perception of components of the syllable such as syllable onset and nucleus ( Greenberg, 1999 , 2006 ; Greenberg, Carvey, Hitchcock, & Chang, 2003 ).”
Phase patterns of neuronal responses reliably discriminate speech in human auditory cortex. (2007, background): “Furthermore, the theta band (4–8 Hz) corresponds to a temporal window of 125–250 ms, matched to mean syllable length across languages (Greenberg et al., 2003; Greenberg and Ainsworth , 2006).”
Sensitivity to rhythmic parameters in dyslexic children: a comparison of Hungarian and English (2009, neutral): “However, the role of fundamental frequency in stress perception is now being questioned (see Greenberg, 1999, 2006; Greenberg, Carvey, Hitchcock, & Chang, 2003; Kochanski, Grabe, Coleman, & Rosner, 2005).”
Cortical encoding of probabilistic temporal predictions during speech perception (2026, unknown): “This yielded 8 regressors, each reﬂecting the amplitude ﬂuctuations within one frequency band, providing a frequency-resolved representation richer than a single broadband envelope while still capturing the slow amplitude dynamics that approximate the syllabic timescale (16, 96).”
The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux (2024, unknown): “It furthermore cements the observation that the dynamics in the acoustic amplitude envelope approximates nearly perfectly the syllabic timescale in natural speech ( 10 , 11 , 21 , 27 ).”
Back in time: Reversed speech as a window into cognitive language processing—A systematic review (2026, unknown): “In modulation frequencies between 3 and 8 Hz, signal parts with durations of 1/8 (125 ms) to 1/3 (333 ms) are amplified (Greenberg et al., 2003; Stilp et al., 2010) and correspond to syllable durations.”