Speech rate effects upon intelligibility and acceptability of dysarthric speech.

abstract：:This research provides further data regarding non-literal language comprehension following right hemisphere damage (RHD). To assess the impact of RHD on the processing of non-literal language, ten participants presenting with RHD and ten matched healthy control participants were administered tasks tapping humour appre...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Cheang HS,Pell MD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the investigation was to examine the developmental trajectories of bilingual preschoolers' comprehension of Spanish and English and to determine whether a lengthy summer vacation impacted children's development during the preschool years. Participants included 83 bilingual children who were followed ove...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Hammer CS,Lawrence FR,Miccio AW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is substantial evidence that a speaker's accent, specifically an unfamiliar accent, can affect the listener's comprehension. In general, this effect holds true for both adults and children as well as those with typical and impaired language. Previous studies have investigated the effect of different accents on i...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Harte J,Frizelle P,Gibbon F

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of English-speaking speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to evaluate stuttering behaviour in two Spanish-English bilingual adults who stutter (AWS1 and AWS2). The English-speaking SLPs were asked to judge the frequency, severity, type, duration, and physical concomitant...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Lee AS,Robb MP,Ormond T,Blomgren M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phonetic inventories of 122 typically developing Cantonese-speaking children, aged from 0;10 to 4;7, were examined in terms of feature distinctions. The applicability of Dinnsen. Chin, Elbert and Powell's implicational feature hierarchy to these data was investigated. Results show that modifications to the hierarc...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Stokes SF,To CK

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphosyntax is one of the most impaired aspects of language development in children with Down syndrome. The present study aimed to assess the emergence of multiword utterances in this population. Sixteen Italian-speaking children with Down syndrome were followed from 36 to 48 months of age. Data derived from an analy...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Draghi L,Zampini L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound tongue imaging has become a promising technique for detecting covert contrasts, due to the developments in data analysis methods that allow for processing information on tongue shape from young children. An important feature concerning analyses of ultrasound data from children who are likely to produce cove...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Zharkova N,Gibbon FE,Lee A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syllable segregation is among the core diagnostic features of both childhood apraxia of speech and acquired apraxia of speech; however, little is known about the limen of perception of syllable segregation. The purpose of this research was therefore to explore adult listeners' auditory perception of within-word syllab...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Brown T,Murray E,McCabe P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of children with specific language impairment (SLI, now known as Developmental Language Disorder) remains challenging. Morphosyntax difficulties have been proposed as potential linguistic 'markers' for SLI across a number of languages. This study investigates the existence of such a clinical marker in G...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Hasselaar J,Letts C,McKean C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been observed that persons with Cri du chat syndrome (CDCS) have poor language production. However, very few studies have addressed the question whether all aspects of language production are equally afflicted, or whether there are differences between for instance phonological and morphological abilities. The p...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Wium K,Kristoffersen KE

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AC-IPSyn computerised system for scoring the Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn) was evaluated. Twenty language samples, ten taken at 30 months and ten of the same children at 42 months, were each scored for the IPSyn by hand and by AC-IPSyn. Point differences and point-to-point reliability were examined at the lev...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Altenberg EP,Roberts JA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to analyse speech perception of children with cochlear implants (N = 29) and children fitted with traditional hearing aids (N = 20). One- and two-syllable words were presented auditorily in a forced choice minimal-pair discrimination task. The children repeated the word and pointed to the appr...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Mildner V,Sindija B,Zrinski KV

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate whether children with Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI) are also phonologically impaired and, if so, what the nature of that impairment is. We focus on the prosodic complexity of words, based on their syllabic and metrical (stress) structure, and investigate this using a novel non-word re...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Gallon N,Harris J,van der Lely H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are some children with speech and/or language difficulties who are significantly more difficult to understand in connected speech than in single words. The study reported here explores the between-word behaviours of three such children, aged 11;8, 12;2 and 12;10. It focuses on whether these patterns could be acc...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Newton C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract A partial glossectomy can affect speech production. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of the presence of a tumour as well as the glossectomy surgery on the patients' production of tongue twisters with the sounds [t] and [k]. Fifteen patients with tongue cancer and 10 healthy controls took p...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Bressmann T,Foltz A,Zimmermann J,Irish JC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of embodiment in communication is attracting an increased interest. This interest is to some extent caused by hypotheses and findings concerning mirror neurons in macaques, that is, neurons that are activated by production as well as perception of, for example, a certain movement of action. Mirror neurons see...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Ahlsén E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether idiom production was vulnerable to age-related difficulties, we asked 40 younger (ages 18-30) and 40 older healthy adults (ages 60-85) to produce idiomatic expressions in a story-completion task. Younger adults produced significantly more correct idiom responses (73%) than did older adults (60%)...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Conner PS,Hyun J,O'Connor Wells B,Anema I,Goral M,Monéreau-Merry MM,Rubino D,Kuckuk R,Obler LK

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multimodal approach combining acoustics, intelligibility ratings, articulography and surface electromyography was used to examine the characteristics of dysarthria due to cerebral palsy (CP). CV syllables were studied by obtaining the slope of F2 transition during the diphthong, tongue-jaw kinematics during the rele...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Rong P,Loucks T,Kim H,Hasegawa-Johnson M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the oral reading and conversational speech of eight bilinguals who stutter (BWS). The participants spoke Omani Arabic as the dominant and English as the less-dominant language. The samples were examined with particular reference to the production of overall disfluency, stuttering-like disfluencies ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Al'Amri F,Robb MP

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The current longitudinal study examined the acquisition of consonantal singleton segments in Cypriot-Greek. The study's aims were: (a) to determine the acquisition of segments for manner and place of articulation as a function of age and word position, (b) to provide preliminary normative data, and (c) to further supp...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Petinou K,Theodorou E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study investigated whether phonetic complexity affected stuttering rate for Spanish speakers. The speakers were assigned to three age groups (6-11, 12-17 and 18-years plus) that were similar to those used in an earlier study on English. The analysis was performed using Jakielski's Index of Phonetic Complex...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Howell P,Au-Yeung J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent approaches to the study of language disorders in adults with focal brain damage (aphasia) have interpreted aphasic symptoms as impairments of particular aspects of the normal language system. Two distinct approaches along these lines, clinical linguistics and cognitive neuropsychology, have developed in paralle...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Mitchum CC,Berndt RS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of speaking rate variation on aerodynamic and acoustic measures of velopharyngeal (VP) function. Twenty-seven healthy adult speakers (14 males, 13 females) participated in the study. The modified pressure-flow method was used to collect aerodynamic data of /m/ and /p/...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Gauster A,Yunusova Y,Zajac D

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzed narratives from 18 Mandarin-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 18 typically developing children matched on chronological age. The narrative data were based on Frog, where are you? Participant's narratives were analyzed at the macrostructure and microstructure levels. Rega...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Torng PC,Sah WH

更新日期：2020-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this research was to assess the support for motor speech disorders as explanatory constructs to guide research and treatment of reduced intelligibility in persons with Down syndrome (DS). Participants were the 45 adolescents with DS in the prior paper who were classified into five mutually-exclusive motor ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Wilson EM,Abbeduto L,Camarata SM,Shriberg LD

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terms fortis and lenis are variously regarded as having one single underlying phonetic correlate or many. An exploratory analysis of acoustic and aerodynamic data on contrasting stop series in a number of European and non-European languages confirms that a significant variation in peak intra-oral pressure and in a...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Butcher A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Locus equations derived from productions by three children with hearing loss revealed sensory and motor influences on anticipatory coarticulation. Participants who received auditory access to speech via hearing aids and cochlear implants at different ages (5-39 months) were recorded at approximately 6 and 12 months af...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： McCaffrey Morrison H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standardized assessments of children's isiXhosa phonology have not yet been developed and there is limited information about developmental norms in this language. This article reports on the phonological development of 24 typically developing first language isiXhosa-speaking children aged 3;0-6;0 years, in Cape Town, ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Maphalala Z,Pascoe M,Smouse MR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work investigates the developmental aspects of the duration of point vowels in children with normal hearing compared with those with hearing aids and cochlear implants at 4 and 5 years of age. Younger children produced longer vowels than older children, and children with hearing loss (HL) produced longer and more...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： VanDam M,Ide-Helvie D,Moeller MP

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many accounts of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) imply that the condition's behavioural 'symptoms' are direct reflexes of underlying deficits. In doing so, however, they invariably overlook the social contexts in which symptomatic behaviours occur and are identified as pathological. This study addresses this issue, usi...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Muskett T,Perkins M,Clegg J,Body R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00