SPEECH ANALYSIS AND MENTAL PROCESSES.

The article examines the contribution of speech analysis to the scientific study of the processes involved in psychotherapy. Objective measures of the mental processes underlying the act of speech resulting from speech analysis are reported. In this paper, the author discussed the problem of linking these to physiological states, and presented examples 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.