Speech Analysis and Mental Processes

Abstract

The contribution of speech analysis to the scientific study of the processes involved in psychotherapy is reviewed. Objective measures of the mental processes underlying the act of speech resulting from speech analysis are reported, the problem of linking these to physiological states discussed, and examples presented of such relationships. The analysis of the rate and nature of speech production in particular is shown to have led to the isolation of speech parameters which are relevant to the investigation of speech as a process reflecting affective and cognitive experiences.