37.2369, Books: Speech during Exercise: Heather Weston (2026)

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Date: 14-Jul-2026
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Speech during Exercise: Heather Weston (2026)


Title: Speech during Exercise
Subtitle: Adaptation and variability in production
Series Title: Studies in Laboratory Phonology
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/590

Author(s): Heather Weston

eBook

Abstract:

Much of human communication occurs while people are moving, exerting
themselves, or otherwise not at rest, yet speech production in such
contexts has received little systematic attention. Previous studies
have typically addressed respiration, phonation, or articulation
separately, making it difficult to characterize changes in speech
production as a whole. This book presents a multi-level investigation
of speech during controlled physical activity. Combining respiratory
data, acoustic analysis, and speaker reports, it examines how
different exercise levels affect breathing patterns, phonation, and
articulatory realization.
The analyses reveal adjustments across all production levels, but no
uniform production mode: individual speakers show distinct patterns of
response under the same physical workload. By integrating quantitative
and qualitative evidence, the book highlights the role of
between-speaker variability for understanding speech behavior under
real-life conditions. The findings inform models of speech production
and variability, and they support a broader view of speech as a
dynamically coordinated system that adapts across changing bodily
states.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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