Vowel variability and contrast in Childhood Apraxia of Speech: acoustics and articulation.

abstract：:The present study explores word boundary behaviours in the spontaneous speech of a group of 6 preschool children. Speech collected in play settings is examined for the presence of normal and atypical connected speech behaviours, and to identify specific instances of open and close word juncture behaviours. The finding...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Thompson J,Howard S

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：: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：: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：:The study examined the types of mistakes children make during conversations with a familiar partner. The current investigation differs from previous studies because it asked what it is about the language of children with specific language impairment and phonological disorder (SLI:PD) that causes mothers to ask for cla...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Yont KM,Hewitt LE,Miccio AW

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the adaptation of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) to the Rarotongan dialect of Cook Islands Maori, a Polynesian language spoken in the Cook Islands and expatriate communities. A brief linguistic sketch of Rarotongan is presented. As Rarotongan is characterised by a complex pronominal system, 'a...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Amberber AM

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：: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：:Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) may be approached by multilingual speakers wishing to improve their intelligibility in English. Intelligibility is an essential element of spoken language proficiency and is particularly important for multilingual international students given their need to express complex ideas in a...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Blake HL,McLeod S,Verdon S

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:There is a lack of clarity in the field regarding how to best predict which naming treatment will be most beneficial for a particular individual with aphasia. The purpose of this study was to elucidate whether or not semantic or phonological therapy differentially impacts on outcomes for people with a range of differe...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Neumann Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 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 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：:This study examined variations in English complex onset realizations by children who use cochlear implants. Data consisted of 227 productions of two-segment onset clusters from 12 children. In general, onset cluster realizations of children with cochlear implants did not differ markedly from those reported for childre...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Chin SB

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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 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：:A procedure for assessing prosody and intonation in children (PEPS-C: Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems--Children), suitable for use by clinicians with both children and adults, is described. The procedure includes testing of four communication areas in which intonation/prosody has a crucial role: interaction, af...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Peppé S,McCann J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on the development of a Literacy Assessment Battery for the diagnosis of Maltese children with specific learning difficulties. It forms part of a wider research study involving testing of 549 children in Malta as well as standardisation of the tool. Results of the children's performance and psycho...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Xuereb R,Grech H,Dodd B

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease which, in addition to affecting motor and cognitive functions, may involve language disorders. Despite the importance of speech and language disorders in the quality of life of patients, there are only a few studies about language and speech production difficul...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Svindt V,Bóna J,Hoffmann I

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:This paper describes a new protocol for assessing the phonological systems of two-year-olds with typical development and older children with delays in vocabulary acquisition. The test (Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills (PEEPS), Williams & Stoel-Gammon, in preparation ) differs from currently available a...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Stoel-Gammon C,Williams AL

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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