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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Audio Speech Lang Process. 2011 Sep 1;19(7):2081–2090. doi: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2112351

TABLE IV.

Language and Speech Measure Group Differences When Measures Are Derived From Either Manual or Automatic Annotations.

Feature ID Measure Logical Memory I Logical Memory II t(72)

CDR=0 CDR=0.5 t(72) CDR=0 CDR=0.5


mean SD mean SD mean SD mean SD
1 Words per retell 69.22 23.01 64.22 28.25 0.83 70.43 28.83 61.03 31.91 1.33
2 Utter. per retell 8.41 3.08 8.70 4.30 −0.33 8.03 3.59 7.54 4.10 0.55
3 Words per utter. 8.72 2.60 7.91 3.57 1.12 9.28 3.01 8.09 4.14 1.41

Language Measures

4 Words per clause 6.20 1.48 5.47 1.53 2.09* 6.49 1.29 5.17 1.87 3.53***
Automated: 6.23 1.58 5.25 1.34 2.88** 6.34 1.29 5.15 1.79 3.28***

5 Frazier per word 1.07 0.10 1.10 0.11 −1.23 1.05 0.07 1.05 0.27 0.00
Automated: 1.05 0.08 1.08 0.09 −1.52 1.03 0.08 1.02 0.26 0.22

6 Tree Nodes per word 2.00 0.09 2.03 0.10 −1.36 1.98 0.07 1.93 0.47 0.64
Automated: 1.98 0.08 2.01 0.09 −1.52 1.96 0.07 1.90 0.47 0.77

7 Yngve per word 1.49 0.27 1.48 0.42 0.12 1.57 0.26 1.38 0.49 2.08*
Automated: 1.41 0.22 1.39 0.30 0.33 1.54 0.29 1.32 0.47 2.42**

8 Depend Len per word 1.57 0.29 1.55 0.41 0.24 1.66 0.28 1.47 0.48 2.08*
Automated: 1.50 0.22 1.49 0.34 0.15 1.65 0.32 1.43 0.47 2.35*

9 POS cross entropy (LM) 2.09 0.24 2.00 0.22 1.68* 2.10 0.25 1.96 0.54 1.43
Automated: 2.11 0.23 2.02 0.20 1.80* 2.12 0.24 1.98 0.53 1.46

10 POS cross entropy (SW) 2.06 0.20 2.00 0.19 1.32 2.08 0.21 1.94 0.51 1.54
Automated: 2.07 0.20 2.01 0.17 1.39 2.08 0.20 1.94 0.51 1.55

11 P-Density per word 0.40 0.07 0.41 0.09 −0.53 0.44 0.07 0.43 0.13 0.41
Automated: 0.40 0.07 0.40 0.09 0.00 0.43 0.07 0.43 0.13 0.00

12 Content Density 1.07 0.27 0.90 0.30 2.56** 1.03 0.30 0.88 0.32 2.08*
Automated: 1.04 0.27 0.87 0.30 2.56** 1.01 0.29 0.84 0.32 2.39*

Speech Measures

13 Pauses per retell 8.86 5.73 9.65 4.65 −0.65 7.46 4.62 6.84 4.78 0.57
Automated: 9.30 5.64 10.05 5.03 −0.60 7.92 5.18 7.08 5.29 0.69

14 Total Pause Time 21.46 21.81 18.69 12.51 0.67 11.91 10.39 11.67 11.78 0.09
Automated: 18.66 17.36 18.29 12.24 0.11 11.56 9.71 11.60 11.78 −0.02

15 Mean Pause Duration 2.04 1.38 1.86 0.78 0.69 1.41 0.88 1.41 0.91 0.00
Automated: 1.80 0.94 1.76 0.73 0.20 1.32 0.80 1.35 0.78 −0.16

16 Standardized Pause Rate 10.72 10.03 7.21 3.70 2.00* 13.62 12.94 9.66 6.97 1.64
Automated: 10.93 9.49 7.50 5.46 1.91* 12.08 10.18 9.76 7.40 1.12

17 Total Phonation Time 24.20 9.49 20.55 8.43 1.75* 24.04 9.35 19.05 10.68 2.14*
Automated: 23.86 11.64 20.23 8.68 1.52 22.37 8.49 18.49 10.64 1.73*

18 Phonation Rate 0.62 0.21 0.56 0.15 1.41 0.72 0.18 0.65 0.23 1.46
Automated: 0.63 0.18 0.55 0.15 2.08* 0.71 0.17 0.64 0.23 1.49

19 Transformed Phonation Rate 0.93 0.25 0.85 0.16 1.64 1.04 0.23 0.94 0.31 1.58
Automated: 0.93 0.20 0.85 0.17 1.85* 1.03 0.23 0.94 0.32 1.39

20 Standardized Phonation Time 2.98 0.61 3.01 0.58 −0.22 3.06 0.67 3.02 0.88 0.22
Automated: 3.18 0.69 3.19 0.70 −0.06 3.22 0.68 3.17 0.96 0.26

21 Verbal Rate 1.88 0.79 1.69 0.57 1.19 2.21 0.80 2.07 0.82 0.74
Automated: 2.03 0.79 1.76 0.61 1.65 2.32 0.87 2.13 0.83 0.96
***

p < 0.001;

**

p < 0.01;

*

p < 0.05