Using the RUPEX Multichannel Corpus in a Pilot fMRI Study on Speech Disfluencies

Katerina Smirnova, Nikolay Korotaev, Yana Panikratova, Irina Lebedeva, Ekaterina Pechenkova, Olga Fedorova

Abstract
In modern linguistics and psycholinguistics speech disfluencies in real fluent speech are a well-known phenomenon. But it’s not still clear which components of brain systems are involved into its comprehension in a listener’s brain. In this paper we provide a pilot neuroimaging study of the possible neural correlates of speech disfluencies perception, using a combination of the corpus and functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI) methods. Special technical procedure of selecting stimulus material from Russian multichannel corpus RUPEX allowed to create fragments in terms of requirements for the fMRI BOLD temporal resolution. They contain isolated speech disfluencies and their clusters. Also, we used the referential task for participants fMRI scanning. As a result, it was demonstrated that annotated multichannel corpora like RUPEX can be an important resource for experimental research in interdisciplinary fields. Thus, different aspects of communication can be explored through the prism of brain activation.
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2020.lrec-1.25
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association
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195–203
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English
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Katerina Smirnova, Nikolay Korotaev, Yana Panikratova, Irina Lebedeva, Ekaterina Pechenkova, and Olga Fedorova. 2020. Using the RUPEX Multichannel Corpus in a Pilot fMRI Study on Speech Disfluencies. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 195–203, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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