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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 28.
Published in final edited form as: Int Conf Speech Database Assess. 2015 Dec 17;2015:86–89. doi: 10.1109/ICSDA.2015.7357870

Table III. Percentages of intonation patterns with positive slopes in spontaneous oral discourses by aphasia and unimpaired speakers.

sentence length ≤ 8 9-12 ≥ 13 overall
Aphasia no. of +ve slope 52 35 21 108
total number 179 128 112 419
% of +ve slope 29.05% 27.34% 18.75% 25.78%
Control no. of +ve slope 14 26 29 69
total number 107 232 314 653
% of +ve slope 13.08% 11.21% 9.24% 10.57%