The MonPaGe_HA Database for the Documentation of Spoken French Throughout Adulthood

Abstract

Our knowledge of life-span changes in the speech of adults is quite sparse. Existing reports are mainly based on English speakers and few studies have compared more than two extreme age groups. The present paper describes the recently constituted MonPaGe_HealthyAdults database of spoken French including 405 male and female speakers aged from 20 to 93 years old. This database aims at documenting speech throughout adulthood and at building a set of reference values for healthy speakers to be used in clinical assessment of speech. The database is built on five age groups ([20-39], [40-49], [50-59], [60-74], [75+]) and includes 4 regiolects. Speakers have been recorded on a variety of linguistic material and speech tasks in order to cover multiple speech dimensions for each speaker. These cross-sectional data form one of the largest French database available for observing typical changes in the speech of adults as a function of age, and especially in older adults.

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