All the while Mr. Windham gasps and whines, mirroring his disjointed, exaggerated speech with jerky movement that could be considered mocking to those with mental disabilities.
McDonagh makes witty play with Irish stereotypes, but beneath the exaggerated speech and the cliches lies a depth of feeling and a psychological acuity less evident in his recent output.
She introduced eccentric characters such as Emily Litella, a hard-of-hearing elderly woman; Roseanne Roseannadanna, a brash New York news anchor; Lisa Loopner, a classic nerd; and Baba Wawa, a character with an exaggerated speech impediment that she based on journalist Barbara Walters.
This result is important because it shows that while one or two acoustic parameters may be crucial characteristics of a type of exaggerated speech, task production involved the systematic adjustment of a complex set of continuous acoustic parameters.
Scientists observed that adult male zebra finches in the presence of male chicks worked to make their songs clearer by spacing out musical phrases and repeating introductory notes actions analogous to the slow, exaggerated speech many adults use with young children.
To show the contrast, Munson has recorded a sentence in three exaggerated speech styles that contain different "s" pronunciations: the first has an especially crisp "s," the second a less crisp "s" that is closer to the "sh" sound, and the third a more lisplike "th -like sound. .
