Changes in temporal features of speech in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) - case studies.

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：: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：: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：:The current study aimed to use electromagnetic articulography (EMA) to investigate the effect of increasing word length on lingual kinematics in acquired apraxia of speech (AOS). Tongue-tip and tongue-back movement was recorded for five speakers with AOS and a concomitant aphasia (mean age = 53.6 years; SD = 12.60) du...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Bartle-Meyer CJ,Goozee JV,Murdoch BE

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：: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：:Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) is a widely used therapeutic intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) yet there has been little research into the interactional organization of ABA sessions. We report a comparative case study of two interactions in which the same child, a 12-year-old boy with ASD,...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Rae JP,Ramey M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation has been made that agrammatic speakers fail in the comprehension of various sentence types, and this behaviour has been attributed to diminished syntactic capabilities, under the unverified assumption that perception of intonation is intact. Here we re-examine this assumption experimentally with a lang...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Gavarró A,Salmons I

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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：:This paper uses a combination of perceptual and electropalatographic (EPG) analysis to explore the presence and characteristics of connected speech processes in the speech output of five older children with developmental speech impairments. Each of the children is shown to use some processes typical of normal speech p...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Howard S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents a novel approach for the early detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild Alzheimer's disease (mAD) in the elderly. Participants were 25 elderly controls (C), 25 clinically diagnosed MCI and 25 mAD patients, included after a clinical diagnosis validated by CT or MRI and cognitive tests. ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Vincze V,Szatlóczki G,Tóth L,Gosztolya G,Pákáski M,Hoffmann I,Kálmán J

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing impairment is a common chronic condition in middle-aged and elderly adults. The number of individuals with hearing impairment is expected to rise because of the longer life expectancies and trends in the population growth. Acquired hearing impairment in adulthood is not just a disorder of the sense of hearing....

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Pajo K,Laakso M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a method to get the best representation of a speech motion from several repetitions is presented. Each repetition is a representation of the same speech captured at different times by sequence of ultrasound images and is composed of a set of 2D spatio-temporal contours. These 2D contours in different re...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Li M,Kambhamettu C,Stone M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to compare approaches highlighting either semantic or phonological features to treat naming deficits in aphasia. Treatment focused on improving picture naming. An alternating treatments design was used with a multiple baseline design across stimuli to examine effects of both approaches in two ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Hashimoto N

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I present evidence that linguistic "recycling" - i.e., the redeployment of linguistic material from prior utterances during conversation - is a striking and prevalent feature not only of interaction between typical speakers, but also, and notably, of interaction involving the communication impaired. In the latter case...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Perkins MR

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：:The aim of this study was to apply one-third-octave analysis for measuring an acoustic correlate of hypernasality in the speech of adults with a range of aetiologies (dysarthria, maxillectomy and cleft palate). Subjects included 12 speakers with hypernasality and 12 normal controls. The speech material was the vowel /...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Lee AS,Ciocca V,Whitehill TL

更新日期：2003-06-01 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 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：:Glottal stops are conveyed by an abrupt constriction at the level of the glottis. Tracheoesophageal (TE) speakers are known to have poor control over the new voice source (neoglottis), and this might influence the production of 'glottal' stops. This study investigated how TE speakers realized 'glottal' stops in abutti...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： van Rossum MA,van As-Brooks CJ,Hilgers FJ,Roozen M

更新日期：2009-01-01 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 purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in voice onset time (VOT) between speakers of standard American English (AE) and Indian English (IE) in a continuous speech context. The participants were 20 AE speakers, who were native to the Northeastern Pennsylvania region, and 20 IE speakers from the...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Awan SN,Stine CL

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The verb inflections of matched groups of German-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and phonological impairment (PI) were evaluated, and performance compared with age-matched and language-matched typically developing (TD) children (66 participants in total). An elicitation task for second- an...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Hasselaar J,Letts C,McKean C

更新日期：2020-07-02 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：:This study examined ten children with specific language impairment (SLI), 16 normally developing children, and ten adults for the production of novel root compounds. The participants were asked to invent names for pictures of 24 pairs of contrasting, novel objects. For half of the pictures, the context supported a gra...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Grela B,Snyder W,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies indicate functional cerebral hemispheric processing differences between monolinguals and bilinguals who stutter, as well as monolinguals and bilinguals who do not stutter. Eighty native German speakers, half of whom were also proficient speakers of English as a second language (L2), were assessed on a d...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Kornisch M,Robb MP,Jones RD

更新日期：2020-08-02 00:00:00

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 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