Intelligibility Enhancement Assessment and Intervention: a single-case experimental design with two multilingual university students.

abstract：:An acoustic-perceptual investigation was performed on fundamental frequency (F(0)) contours associated with lexical tones in the speech of one 21-year-old adult speaker of Thai who did not start speaking until age 7. Thai is a tone language with five lexically contrastive tones-mid, low, falling, high, and rising. Mea...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Gandour J,Petty SH,Dardarananda R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study presented in this article aims at investigating the clinical usefulness of a novel test, called T-PEC, for the diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder in Italian preschool children. The instrument exploits the production of clitic pronouns, in particular third person direct object clitics (3PDO-CL), as ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Crocetti P,Fancelli S,Colpizzi I,Suozzi A,Crocetti E,Borgogni E,Gagliardi G

更新日期：2020-10-06 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 application of Conversation Analysis (CA) to the investigation of agrammatic aphasia reveals that utterances produced by speakers with agrammatism engaged in everyday conversation differ significantly from utterances produced in response to decontextualised assessment and therapy tasks. Early studies have demonstr...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Beeke S,Beckley F,Best W,Johnson F,Edwards S,Maxim J

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:The aim of the present study is to contribute to the description of the speech production deficits in French-speaking aphasic patients, so as to shed light on their potential phonetic and/or phonological disorders. Acoustic studies of aphasics' speech productions remain relatively infrequent, especially in French, and...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Verhaegen C,Delvaux V,Fagniart S,Huet K,Piccaluga M,Harmegnies B

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general viseme groups of the Welsh language are found to be very similar to those found in other European languages. Of the consonants found only in the Welsh language the uvular fricative /x/ was grouped with velar and glottal consonants. Generally /ł/ forms an individual viseme group and is quite distinct from /...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Meredith R,Stephens SD,Jones GE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human society is organised through communicative interactions between co-present people. Speech pathology (SP) assessment and intervention strategies aim to access these sites of communication in order to facilitate participation in life situations for people with communication disorders. Surprisingly, however, there ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Barnes S,Bloch S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sentences recorded by four speakers with dysarthria and two control speakers were presented to listeners at three different rates: habitual, a 30% slower rate and a 30% higher rate. Rate changes were made by digitally manipulating the habitual sentences. Thirty young normal adult listeners rated the sentences for inte...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Dagenais PA,Brown GR,Moore RE

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several research groups have previously constructed short forms of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) for different languages. We consider the specific aim of constructing such a short form to be used for language screening in a specific age group. We present a novel strategy for the const...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Vach W,Bleses D,Jørgensen R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers the idea of developing a clinical sociolinguistics. Various areas of the field are examined, and the importance of the 'core' area of the correlation of non-linguistic variables with linguistic variables stressed. Issues concerning language and class, region, sex, age and context of utterance are ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Ball MJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven native Spanish-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (8;3-10;11) and 11 typically developing children (8;7-10;8) received a comprehensive psycholinguistic evaluation. Participants listened to either Direct Object (DO) pronoun sentences or filler sentences without any pronoun, and they decide...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Girbau D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated how trilinguals fare on the cross-linguistic lexical tasks (CLT)-Afrikaans, -isiXhosa and -South African English (SAE) (cf. Haman et al., 2015) compared to monolingual controls, and whether the CLT-Afrikaans renders comparable results across socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. The LITMUS-CL...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Perold Potgieter A,Southwood F

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent technological developments have made inexpensive digital speech recording and analysis available to any researcher interested in using them. This paper explores the benefits of working with digital sound files, it provides the reader with system recommendations, explains how to digitize audio recordings, and in...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Bunta F,Ingram K,Ingram D

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terms such as isochrony, syllable segregation, scanning speech and staccato-like rhythmic quality have been used to characterize the temporal regularity that may be a core feature of apraxia of speech. The present report describes a procedure to quantify temporal regularity in children with suspected apraxia of speech...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Shriberg LD,Green JR,Campbell TF,McSweeny JL,Scheer AR

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that the production of third-person singular accusative object clitics (3DO clitics) might be taxing in Italian-speaking pre-school children with cochlear implants (CIs). We investigated this topic by assessing 3DO clitic production in 14 children with an average age of 8 years, who had rec...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Giustolisi B,Guasti MT,Nicastri M,Mancini P,Palma S,Genovese E,Arosio F

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The sonority sequencing principle suggests that the relative sonority rank among sounds can explain intrasyllabic phoneme ordering patterns in words produced by normal speakers. Some investigators have incorporated sonority into explanations of the phonemic paraphasias and syllable structure deficits often seen in aph...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Christman SS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalization refers to the extension of learned behaviours to novel conditions, and it is one of the criteria by which the effectiveness and efficiency of a remediation programme may be judged. This article extracts principles of generalization from the treatment literature, and provides examples of how this informa...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Miccio AW,Powell TW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is continuing debate about the origins of productive morphological errors in children with speech sound disorders. This is the case for children with theorised phonetic and motor disorders, such as children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS, e.g., Ekelman & Aram, 1983; McNeill & Gillon, 2013 ). The morpholog...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Murray E,Thomas D,McKechnie J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined potential influences of cultural and linguistic background on PPVT-4 performance in a community sample of preschool-age children from low-SES households. We did this by evaluating PPVT-4 item-level performance across African American and Hispanic children from low-income families. We compare...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Finneran DA,Heilmann JJ,Moyle MJ,Chen S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on consonant productions by a group of children with cri du chat syndrome (CdCS) and examines how various aspects of these productions contribute to these children's overall intelligibility. Eight children and adolescents with CdCS participated in the study, and the following four questions were a...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Kristoffersen KE,Garmann NG,Simonsen HG

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the acquisition of word initial /s/ clusters of 3-5 year old Dutch children with phonological disorders. Within these clusters, /sl/ was produced correctly most often, whereas /sn/ and /sx/ were the more difficult clusters. In cluster reductions, /s/+obstruent and /sl/ clusters reduction patter...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Gerrits E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phonotactic patterns of seven 11-15-year-old Kannada speaking children with Down syndrome (DS), mental age matched children with mental retardation (MR) without DS and six 4-5-year-old typically developing (TD) children were investigated. Conversational speech analyses and target analyses of conversational speech were...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Rupela V,Manjula R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Good quality normative data are essential for clinical practice in speech-language pathology but are largely lacking for French-speaking children. We investigated speech production accuracy by French-speaking children attending kindergarten (maternelle) and first grade (première année). The study aimed to provide norm...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Rvachew S,Marquis A,Brosseau-Lapré F,Paul M,Royle P,Gonnerman LM

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Dysphonia negatively affects a speaker's intelligibility, especially in noisy environments. Previously, our study showed this effect of dysphonia with the transcription-based intelligibility measurement. While this finding indicates the importance of intelligibility assessment for this population, implementing the tra...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Ishikawa K,Webster J,Ketring C

更新日期：2020-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Competence in spoken discourse is an important consideration during assessment and intervention planning for adolescents with communication difficulties. Currently, a lack of age-appropriate protocols and reference data against which to interpret performance, are barriers when working with this population, particularl...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Hill E,Claessen M,Whitworth A,Boyes M

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication disorders pose various challenges for valid and reliable measurement. Previously, we sketched how the prevailing concepts and measurement practices employed in research and speech pathology practice for communication disorders have framed the real-time accomplishment of co-present communication, and cont...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Barnes S,Bloch S

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:In order to examine more closely the ways that children use socially constructed dialogue to mediate task mastery a hierarchical set of computer tasks were presented in an animated game format (ToonTalk) to three adult/child (US Kindergarten) dyads over five sessions. Transcriptions of the adult-child talk were used t...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Hagstrom F,White M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00