Consequences of body composition on the production of European Portuguese: preliminary results

Authors

  • Débora Franco Escola Superior de Saúde do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria e Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Mário Andrea Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Maria Isabel Fragoso Faculdade de Motricidade Humana da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Júlia Teles Faculdade de Motricidade Humana da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Fernando Martins Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa e Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln1ano2016a20

Keywords:

Voice quality, Extralinguistic patterns, Acoustical evaluation, Body composition

Abstract

We found that production parameters of a European Portuguese corpus are influenced by body composition: more prominently in the frequency parameters (f0, DP f0 and formants), perturbation parameters and noise parameters, for vowel segments [a] and [i]. We concluded that extralinguistic patterns of voice quality were significantly correlated with body composition and somatotype. The vocal quality characterization of a speaker can allow the identification of his particular phonetic settings and the use of his anatomic mechanism, during speech.

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Published

2016-10-01

How to Cite

Débora Franco, Mário Andrea, Maria Isabel Fragoso, Júlia Teles, & Fernando Martins. (2016). Consequences of body composition on the production of European Portuguese: preliminary results. Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association, (1), 463–486. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln1ano2016a20

Issue

No. 1 (2016): Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association

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