abstract：:Speech-language pathologists nowadays are more and more confronted with clients who speak a language different from their own mother tongue. The assessment of persons who speak a foreign language poses particular challenges. The present study investigated the possible role and interplay of factors involved in the iden...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Cosyns M,Einarsdóttir JT,Van Borsel J

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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 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：:The purpose of this study was to compare early speech and language development of children with and without cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) in the US and Slovakia from 6 to 24 months of age. Thirty-two children from the US (eight with CLP and eight noncleft) and Slovakia (eight with CLP and eight noncleft) participated ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Scherer NJ,Oravkinova Z,McBee MT

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The present linguistic analyses of two children (aged 8 and 10) with Asperger Syndrome (AS) and their two matched controls are based on dyadic therapist-child conversations and on picture description tasks. The circa 100 analysis features covering aspects of (i) lexicon (e.g. prominalization), (ii) structural characte...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Niemi J,Otsa L,Evtyukova A,Lehtoaro L,Niemi J

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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：:Although word searching in children is very common, very little is known about how adults support children in the turns following the child's search behaviours, an important topic because of the social, educational, and clinical implications. This study characterizes, in detail, teachers' use of prompting, hinting, an...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Radford J

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：: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

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：:This study had two objectives. The first was to analyse the impact of Parkinson's disease (PD) on the duration of CV syllables and their components in different positions within phrases in French; the second was to examine the distribution of final lengthening (FL) on syllable sub-components. Two main tendencies emerg...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Duez D,Legou T,Viallet F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to identify how Spanish-speaking preschool children with and without specific language impairment (SLI) use the various cues available for ascribing a noun's inherent gender in the language. Via an invented word task, four types of cues were isolated and presented to each child: (...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Anderson RT,Lockowitz A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates 39 different phonetic inventories of 16 Spanish-speaking children (ages 0;11 to 5;1) in terms of hierarchical complexity. Phonetic featural differences are considered in order to evaluate the proposed implicational hierarchy of Dinnsen et al.'s phonetic inventory typology for English. The children...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Cataño L,Barlow JA,Moyna MI

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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：:Recent interest in gesture has led to an understanding of the development of gesture and speech in typically developing young children. Research suggests that initially gesture and speech form two independent systems which combine together temporally and semantically before children enter the two-word period of langua...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Sowden H,Perkins M,Clegg J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated social knowledge in school-age children, aged 8-12 years, with and without language impairment (LI and TD groups). A hypothetical peer conflict task was administered to examine the relationship among prosocial responses and parent/teacher ratings of children's social behaviours. Stimuli include...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Timler GR

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：: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：: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：:This study examined whether children's use of subject relative clauses differs as a function of their English dialect (African American English, AAE vs. Southern White English, SWE vs. Mainstream American English, MAE) and clinical diagnosis (specific language impairment, SLI vs. typically developing, TD). The data we...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Oetting JB,Newkirk BL

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to test the hypothesis that closeness to the listener's native language is a determining factor when identifying stuttering in an unfamiliar language, three panels of different linguistic background were asked to make judgements of stuttering in a sample of Dutch speakers. It was found that a panel speaking D...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Van Borsel J,Leahy MM,Pereira MB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

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