Re: AP in all of us? New evidence from speech research (Tom Brennan )


Subject: Re: AP in all of us? New evidence from speech research
From:    Tom Brennan  <g_brennantg(at)TITAN.SFASU.EDU>
Date:    Wed, 9 May 2001 19:17:40 -0500

Martin, I'd suggest reading material written both by Boon and Wilson as well as Andrews. These materials should come up in any search using voice. As to whether pitch is necessary for speech, you are correct in a quite literal sense but uninflected or highly pitch varient speech is unintelligable. Deaf persons can learn to control the speech of their pitch sufficiently to be understood. Now let me make another comment on pitch. Languages such as Chinese people speak do absolutely require control of pitch so what you have said about speech not requiring pitch control is patently untrue for some speech. I cannot comment on speech training of Chinese deaf as I have no first hand experience with it. Tom Tom Brennan, CCC-A/SLP, RHD web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html web master http://titan.sfasu.edu/~f_freemanfj/speechscience.html web master http://titan.sfasu.edu/~f_freemanfj/fluency.html


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