Canal-U

An embodied and situated perspective on speech and language- Labex EFL - Lecture 2: The forgotten articulator: How respiration constrains linguistic structure and affects speech at a local and global level (Susanne Fuchs 2019)

In this lecture, I will talk about
respiration, a biological rhythm which is flexible and adaptable and crucially
involved in speech production, perception and face-to-face interactions. Based
on different experiments, I will discuss the interplay between respiration and
speech planning in read and spontaneous speech and the respiratory coordination
between interlocutors in dialogue. Finally, I will argue that respiration does
not only deliver the expiratory airstream for speech in long temporal windows
(interpausal units), but can also be involved in the production of prominent
syllables.