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The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP)

View ORCID ProfileKyle Jasmin, View ORCID ProfileFrederic Dick, View ORCID ProfileAdam Taylor Tierney
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/555102
Kyle Jasmin
Birkbeck, University of London, UK
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Prosody can be defined as the rhythm and intonation patterns spanning words, phrases and sentences. Accurate perception of prosody is an important component of many aspects of language processing, such as parsing grammatical structures, recognizing words, and determining where emphasis may be placed. Prosody perception is important for language acquisition and can be impaired in language-related developmental disorders. However, existing assessments of prosodic perception suffer from some shortcomings. These include being unsuitable for use with typically developing adults due to ceiling effects, or failing to allow the investigator to distinguish the unique contributions of individual acoustic features such as pitch and temporal cues. Here we present the Multi-Dimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP), a novel tool for the assessment of prosody perception. It consists of two subtests – Linguistic Focus, which measures the ability to hear emphasis or sentential stress, and Phrase Boundaries, which measures the ability to hear where in a compound sentence one phrase ends, and another begins. Perception of individual acoustic dimensions (Pitch and Time) can be examined separately, and test difficulty can be precisely calibrated by the the experimenter because stimuli were created using a continuous voice morph space. We present validation analyses from a sample of 57 individuals and discuss how the battery might be deployed to examine perception of prosody in various populations.

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The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP)
Kyle Jasmin, Frederic Dick, Adam Taylor Tierney
bioRxiv 555102; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/555102
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Kyle Jasmin, Frederic Dick, Adam Taylor Tierney
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