MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics' source. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:18:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450056&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106884%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Müller N, Powell TW, Howard SJ PMID: 22106884 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450056 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450056 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450052&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106885%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Howard S, Heselwood B Abstract In this article, we discuss the relationship between instrumental and perceptual phonetic analyses. Using data drawn from typical and atypical speech production, we argue that the use of two-tier transcriptions, which can compare and contrast perceptual and instrumental information, is valuable both for our general understanding of the mechanisms of speech production and perception and also for assessment and intervention for individuals with atypical speech production. The central tenet of our case is that instrumental and perceptual analyses are not in competition to give a single 'correct' account of speech data. They take instead perspectives on complementary phonetic domains, which interlock in the speech chain to encompass production, t... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450052 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450051&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106886%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Müller N, Papakyritsis I Abstract This brief article reflects on some pitfalls inherent in the learning and teaching of segmental phonetic transcription. We suggest that a gestural interpretation to disordered speech data, in conjunction with segmental phonetic transcription, can add valuable insight into patterns of disordered speech, and that a gestural orientation should form part of the understanding and interpretation of the process of transcribing and the use of transcripts. We illustrate our discussion with data from a case of moderately to severely unintelligible speech produced by a boy aged 5;9. PMID: 22106886 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450051 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450051 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450050&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106887%26dopt%3DAbstract This article outlines one such approach that looks at four levels from words to segments, using nine phonological measures. It also presents a new methodology for comparing children across the levels (multidimensional assessment of phonological similarity (MAPS)), and demonstrates the approach through a comparison of four sibling pairs. The results show that children can differ greatly and unpredictably in their similarities and differences, and that only a multidimensional analysis can identify where these similarities and differences may occur. PMID: 22106887 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450050 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450050 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450049&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106888%26dopt%3DAbstract This article is a comparative look at the cluster reduction patterns of English #sC onsets in three groups of children. Data from 40 monolingual, 40 Spanish-English bilingual and 40 Haitian Creole-English bilingual children were examined. While there were several similarities in the patterns exhibited by the three groups, there was a sharp contrast regarding /sl-/ clusters between monolingual children and the two groups of bilinguals. Among the predictions offered for reduction patterns in recent literature, 'factorial typology' of Pater and Barlow (2003 ) appeared to be the most successful. PMID: 22106888 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450049 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450049 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450048&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106889%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Topbaş S Abstract The potential impact of bilingualism on children's language development has emerged as a crucial concern for Turkey, but so far it has not been addressed from the point of view of language disorders. This short review examines the potential impact of bilingual language development for language impairments in Turkey, with special emphasis on the largest minority population speaking Kurdish and Turkish. PMID: 22106889 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450048 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450048 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450047&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106890%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Awan SN, Stine CL 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 Indian subcontinent who had been residing in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Each subject read a phonetically balanced passage in a comfortable and natural speaking voice, and the recordings were analysed using a combination of waveform and spectrographic analyses. Results indicate that a reduced +VOT appears to characterise IE accent in comparison to AE. In addition, a difference in VOT between genders was observed in AE speakers but no... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450047 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450047 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450046&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106891%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: McLeod S Abstract Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) rely on knowledge of tongue placement to assess and provide intervention. A total of 175 SLPs who worked with children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) drew coronal diagrams of tongue/palate contact for 24 English consonants. Comparisons were made between their responses and typical English-speaking adults' contact established by electropalatography (EPG). SLPs were most accurate for consonants with no contact (h, p, f), then velar consonants (g, k, ng). The remaining consonants were rarely accurate (from most to least accurate: l, t, r, z, n, sh, s, zh, y, v, th(voiceless), d, m, b, w, th(voiced), ch, j). SLPs demonstrated good knowledge of contact along the midline, but poor knowledge of contact along lateral margin... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450046 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450046 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450045&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106892%26dopt%3DAbstract This study uses electropalatography (EPG) to examine the speech of 25 young people with DS, focusing on their production of the obstruent /t/. For the EPG analysis, participants produced the target obstruent in the word 'toe', repeated 10 times. An investigative analysis was carried out. A new descriptive taxonomy of EPG error patterns was developed and these errors were related to perceptually based transcriptions. The measures are discussed in relation to current knowledge of the anatomical and physiological characteristics of DS. PMID: 22106892 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450045 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450045 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450044&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106893%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Bacsfalvi P, Bernhardt BM Abstract This follow-up study investigated the speech production of seven adolescents and young adults with hearing impairment 2-4 years after speech intervention with ultrasound and electropalatography. Perceptual judgments by seven expert listeners revealed that five out of seven speakers either continued to generalize post-treatment or maintained their level of performance post-treatment. Targets included fricatives, vowels and the rhotic /ɹ/. Speakers ranged in age from 14 to 19 years. Listeners were considered to be expert listeners. All listeners had extensive backgrounds in phonetics and phonology and were speech-language pathologists. This long-term investigation revealed that speech habilitation with visual feedback tools as adjuncts to ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450044 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450044 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450043&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106894%26dopt%3DAbstract This study compared the communication of two older male adolescents (aged 17 and 19 years) with each other (peer interaction) and with a teacher (non-peer interaction) in three different types of activity (casual conversation, providing/listening to a recount and collaborative problem-solving). Conversation analysis, selected analyses from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics and social psychology (communication accommodation theory) were applied in data analysis. Peer interaction showed fewer questions, fewer challenging moves and the absence of divergent accommodation strategies. In the non-peer interaction, the teacher's higher number of turns, questions and interruptions appeared to influence the opportunity for adolescent contribution to the interactions. Some aspects of... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450043 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450043 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450042&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106895%26dopt%3DAbstract This article reports a qualitative analysis of linguistic and interactional aspects of repair in naturalistic play, interaction between three 6-year-olds (C, D and F), one of whom (child D) displays some speech and language difficulties. The methodology draws on conversation analysis together with perceptual phonetic observation. The analysis reveals differences in the use of repair strategies. Although all three boys used self-repair, only C and F initiated other repair. Despite child D's reduced intelligibility, phonetic issues were never oriented to in repair initiations by C or F, nor were they self-repaired by D. In general, D, the speaker with the fewest linguistic resources, used collaborative interpersonal strategies to rectify sources of breakdown in conversation. PMID: 221068... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450042 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450042 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450041&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106896%26dopt%3DAbstract This article describes an intervention study with two Sesotho-speaking individuals with anomia. Sesotho as a noun class and syllable-timed language offers the opportunity to study the influence of cueing techniques, which are based on such linguistic parameters. Word lists were designed using non-aphasic participants and three cueing techniques for anomia were evaluated over a period of 4 months. Findings suggested a positive response to the techniques of true phonemic cueing and prosodic cueing, whereas initial phonemic cueing (a technique commonly used for English-speaking anomic patients) had no impact. This supports the need for a parametrically informed approach to aphasia therapy and strengthens the recommendation that a linguistic basis is paramount in the training of effective clin... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450041 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450041 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5450040&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D22106897%26dopt%3DAbstract This article will discuss and evaluate how various proposals from theory, from the clinic and from drug therapy interact and compete in the search for a cause or causes of recurrent perseveration. PMID: 22106897 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5450040 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5450040 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292918&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967085%26dopt%3DAbstract We describe an analysis of speech errors on a confrontation naming task in a man with progressive speech degeneration of 10-year duration from Pick's disease. C.S. had a progressive non-fluent aphasia together with a motor speech impairment and early assessment indicated some naming impairments. There was also an absence of significant phonological or semantic impairment. In order to examine naming difficulties and the factors that influence his speech production errors, we selected 210 words varying in frequency, age of acquisition (AoA), imageability, phonemic length and syllable length and conducted a logistic regression analysis on a range of speech production error types (phone omissions, additions, substitutions, response delays, overall errors). No significant naming errors due to l... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292918 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292918 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292916&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967129%26dopt%3DAbstract This article shows how graphing EPG data in terms of articulatory separation of phoneme contrasts reduces these two problems to some extent. The graphs emphasise the importance of establishing the presence and extent of separation, as revealed in the EPG data, for phoneme contrasts produced by speakers. Separation graphs for contrasts /i/ - /u/, /s/ - /ʃ/ and /t/ - /k/ are presented using EPG data from adults and children with typical speech and those with speech disorders. When used in conjunction with acoustic and auditory perceptual analyses, it is proposed that representing articulation data in terms of separation will prove useful for a range of clinical and research purposes. PMID: 21967129 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292916 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292916 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292915&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967169%26dopt%3DAbstract This article describes a procedure to aid in the clinical appraisal of child speech. The approach, based on the work by Dinnsen, Chin, Elbert, and Powell (1990; Some constraints on functionally disordered phonologies: Phonetic inventories and phonotactics. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 33, 28-37), uses a railway idiom to track gains in the complexity of speech sound production. A clinical case study is reviewed to illustrate application of the procedure. The procedure is intended to facilitate application of an evidence-based procedure to the clinical management of developmental speech sound disorders. PMID: 21967169 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292915 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292915 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292914&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967234%26dopt%3DAbstract This article discusses the methods used to adapt the profile from English to French using a large corpus of child language in order to accurately assign morphosyntactic structures to age-based stages. PMID: 21967234 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292914 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292913&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967279%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Liker M, Horga D, Mildner V Abstract Electropalatographic specification of alveolar fricatives in Croatian is aimed at providing speech therapists with normative data about the range of acceptable productions of /s/ and /z/ in adult speakers of Croatian. Four variables were analysed: place of articulation, total contact, groove width and hold phase duration. Intra- and inter-speaker variability for each variable was analysed. Lingual palatal cues for voicing difference were also quantified and discussed. Results show that Croatian /s/ and /z/ are alveolar and not dental as previously reported. The comparison between the voiced and the voiceless fricative shows that durational measures provide the best differentiation. The voiceless counterpart is significantly longer. The ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292913 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292913 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292912&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967327%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigated the developmental variability of lip and tongue movement in 48 children and adults. Motion of the tongue-tip, tongue-body and lower lip was recorded using electromagnetic articulography during productions of sentences containing /t/, /s/, /l/, /k/ and /p/. Four groups of speakers participated in the study: (1) aged 6-7 years; (2) 8-11 years; (3) 12-17 years; and (4) adults. The variation in distance, duration, speed, acceleration and deceleration of the articulators during single open-close speech movements was analysed, and the stability of multiple movement sequences was examined using the spatiotemporal index. The experimental findings revealed a gradual developmental progression from 6 years to adulthood. At adolescence, speakers continued to exhibit significant... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292912 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292912 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292911&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967402%26dopt%3DAbstract This article asserts the importance of explication of order and disorder in language as a privileged objective of clinical linguistics and service delivery and reviews the contributions of Martin Ball in advancing this agenda. PMID: 21967402 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292911 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292910&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967452%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigates the production of nominal compounds in semi-spontaneous spoken texts by a group of speakers with fluent types of aphasia compared to a group of neurologically healthy speakers. The speakers with aphasia produce significantly fewer nominal compound types in their texts than the non-aphasic speakers, and the compounds they produce exhibit fewer different types of semantic relations than the compounds produced by the non-aphasic speakers. The results are discussed in relation to theories of language processing. PMID: 21967452 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292910 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292910 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292909&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967479%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Chávez-Peón ME, Bernhardt BM, Adler-Bock M, Avila C, Carballo G, Fresneda D, Lleó C, Mendoza E, Perez D, Stemberger JP Abstract A crosslinguistic study is underway concerning children's protracted phonological development (i.e. speech sound disorders). The current article reports pilot Spanish data for this study from two 4-year-old boys with protracted phonological development. The purposes of the pilot study were to: (1) develop and evaluate a word list for elicitation that could be used across Spanish dialects and that sufficiently sampled Spanish word lengths, stress patterns, word shapes and phonemes; and (2) to derive hypotheses for the larger study, based on patterns found in these children's speech, and a review of the literature. The two speakers showed some de... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292909 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292906&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967501%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Wong TP, Moran C, Foster-Cohen S Abstract The effectiveness of expansion as a technique for facilitating children's language and conversational skills is well known (Scherer and Olswang, 1984). Expansion, however, can appear alone or in combination with other techniques. Using a repeated measures design, this study aimed to compare the effects of expansion alone (EA); expansion combined with wh-questions (EQ); and expansion followed by a cloze procedure (EC) on the conversational skills of eight preschool children with conversational difficulties. Results showed that while there were no significant differences in child verbal topic maintaining responses across all techniques, EA elicited a significantly higher number of topic extensions, more non-verbal topic maintaining r... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292906 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292906 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5292905&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21967540%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: McCaffrey Morrison H 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 after hearing technology fitting. One was also recorded 1 month pre-implantation. Locus equations were compared with data from typically developing children: (1) chronological age peers, and (2) peers with equivalent duration of audition, or hearing age. Anticipatory coarticulation followed typical trajectory in the child fit with hearing aids at 5 months. Anticipatory coarticulation by children with profound hearing loss using coch... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5292905 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5292905 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084479&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787137%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigated the effect of dialectal difference on identification and rating of severity of speech impairment in children from Indigenous Australian backgrounds. The speech of 15 Indigenous Australian children identified by their parents/caregivers and teachers as having 'difficulty talking and making speech sounds' was assessed using the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology. Fourteen children were identified with speech impairment on the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology using Standard Australian English (AusE) as the target pronunciation; whereas 13 were identified using Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) as the target. There was a statistically significant decrease in seven children's severity classification and a statistically significant in... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084479 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084479 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084478&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787138%26dopt%3DAbstract This study examined morphological skills in a girl with cri du chat syndrome, addressing three questions: (1) To what extent does the subject inflect words? (2) To what extent are words inflected correctly? (3) To what extent do the inflected words reflect productive morphological rules, and to what extent can they be considered to be rote-learned? The study draws on two sources of data: a corpus of spontaneous utterances collected when the subject was 14 years old and her performance on a past tense elicitation test at 11;10 and 16;5. It was found that most inflectional forms in the nominal, verbal, pronominal and adjectival paradigms of the target language were attested in the corpus. These forms were in all but a few instances inflected correctly. The most frequent inflection errors wer... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084478 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084478 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084477&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787139%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Schwilling E, Krägeloh-Mann I, Konietzko A, Winkler S, Lidzba K Language functions are generally represented in the left cerebral hemisphere. After early (prenatally acquired or perinatally acquired) left hemispheric brain damage language functions may be salvaged by reorganization into the right hemisphere. This is different from brain lesions acquired in adulthood which normally lead to aphasia. Right hemispheric reorganized language (RL) is not associated with obvious language deficits. In this pilot study we compared a group of German-speaking patients with left hemispheric brain damage and RL with a group of matched healthy controls. The novel combination of reliable language lateralization as assessed by neuroimaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and specific ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084477 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084477 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084476&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787142%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigates aspects of voice onset time (VOT) of voiceless bilabial and velar stops in monolingual and bilingual children. VOT poses a special challenge for bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking children because although this VOT distinction exists in both languages, the values differ for the same contrast across Spanish and English. Twenty-four 3-year-olds participated in this study (8 bilingual Spanish-English, 8 monolingual Spanish and 8 monolingual English). The VOT productions of /p/ and /k/ in syllable-initial stressed singleton position were compared across participants. Non-parametric statistical analyses were performed to examine differences (1) between monolinguals and bilinguals and (2) between English and Spanish. The main findings of the study were that monolingu... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084476 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084476 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084475&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787143%26dopt%3DAbstract This study aims to examine the effect of sample size on the resulting consonant inventories. A spontaneous speech corpus of 30 Dutch-speaking 2-year-olds was used. The results indicate that in order to construct and compare inventories reliably, they should be drawn from speech samples that are equally large. A new consonant inventory procedure is introduced. The implementation of this procedure demonstrates considerably less variation in inventory size across children and word positions than reported previously. This finding has important implications for clinical studies that constructed and compared inventories of typically and atypically developing children without normalizing the sample size. PMID: 21787143 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phon... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084475 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084475 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084474&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787144%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Kent RD Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics (CLP) and its namesake field have accomplished a great deal in the last quarter of a century. The success of the journal parallels the growth and vitality of the field it represents. The markers of journal achievement are several, including increased number of journal pages published annually; greater diversity of topics related to the core mission of the journal; expanding cross-language coverage; and healthy interactions among editors, reviewers and contributors; and - for better or worse - journal impact factors. A journal is in a competitive dynamic with other journals that share its general domain of scholarship, which is a major reason why an apparent imbalance may emerge in the topic content of any particular journal. The con... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084474 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084474 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084473&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787145%26dopt%3DAbstract This article attempts to rectify this by tracing the development of the discipline from its pre-scientific days up to the present time. As part of this, I include the results of a survey of articles published in Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics between 1987 and 2008 which shows, for example, a consistent primary focus on phonetics and phonology at the expense of grammar, semantics and pragmatics. I also trace the gradual broadening of the discipline from its roots in structural linguistics to its current reciprocal relationship with speech and language pathology and a range of other academic disciplines. Finally, I consider the scope of clinical linguistic research in 2011 and assess how the discipline seems likely develop in the future. PMID: 21787145 [PubMed - as supplied by publ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084473 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084473 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084472&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787146%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Bressmann T, Radovanovic B, Kulkarni GV, Klaiman P, Fisher D Ultrasound imaging was used to investigate the articulation of the voiceless velar stop [k] in five speakers with compensatory articulation related to cleft palate. The perceptual evaluation of the acoustic realization and the visual assessment of the tongue movement for the target sound were made by three examiners. The analysis revealed a variety of different compensatory strategies that included glottal stops, pharyngeal stops, midpalatal stops and glottal and velar co-productions. One patient produced palatal click sounds together with a midpalatal stop. The ultrasound imaging also revealed covert articulatory movements that would have been missed in a purely perceptual analysis. The analysis of the ultrasound im... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084472 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084471&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787147%26dopt%3DAbstract This article compares the claims of rule- and constraint-based accounts of three seemingly distinct error patterns, namely, Deaffrication, Consonant Harmony and Assibilation, in the sound system of a child with a phonological delay. It is argued that these error patterns are not separate problems, but rather are symptoms of a larger conspiracy to avoid word-initial coronal stops. The clinical implications of these findings are also considered. PMID: 21787147 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084471 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084471 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084470&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787148%26dopt%3DAbstract This article outlines the main practical and philosophical developments which have contributed to current approaches to phonetic transcription. Particular contributions from scholars in the field are highlighted as seminal in shaping transcription work. Consideration is also given to the ways in which insights from clinical transcription impact upon the analysis of non-clinical data. Finally, the trends which look set to emerge in future transcription practice and research are speculated upon. PMID: 21787148 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084470 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084470 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084469&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21787149%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Gierut JA, Morrisette ML The purpose of this article is to motivate the use of effect size (ES) for single-subject research in clinical phonology, with an eye towards meta-analyses of treatment effects for children with phonological disorders. Standard mean difference (SMD) is introduced and illustrated as one ES well suited to the multiple baseline (MBL) design and evaluation of generalization learning, both of which are key to experimental studies in clinical phonology. PMID: 21787149 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084469 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036978&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21728828%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Centeno JG, Anderson RT Spoken verb tense use in three groups of Spanish speakers with expressive limitations, namely, children with specific language impairment, bilingual children with first language (L1) (Spanish) attrition and adults with agrammatism, was compared in order to examine the possible impact of conversational tense frequency on expressive production. Based on the notion that frequent language forms in typical discourse are preferred in contexts of expressive restrictions, we predicted that tenses with high spoken occurrence will be favoured by individuals in our expressively limited groups. The incidence of tense use by the participants was assessed in oral narratives and/or a sentence repetition task. Consistent with our prediction, the most frequent verb tens... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036978 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5036978 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036977&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21728829%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigated the use of cognitive state verbs (CSVs) and complement clauses in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their typically developing (TD) peers. In Study 1, conversational samples from 23 children with SLI (M = 6;2), 24 age-matched TD children (M = 6;2) and 21 vocabulary-matched TD children (M = 4;9) were analysed for the proportional use of CSVs, verb types, co-occurrence with complement clauses and syntactic frame types. Children in all three groups had similar performance in all measures. Study 2 compared a subset of children on CSV use in conversational and narrative/expository samples. Conversation elicited more high-frequency verbs, whereas narrative/expository samples elicited more low-frequency verbs. Children with SLI used fewer dif... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036977 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5036977 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036976&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21728830%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Conner PS, Hyun J, O'Connor Wells B, Anema I, Goral M, Monéreau-Merry MM, Rubino D, Kuckuk R, Obler LK 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%). When older adults generated partially correct responses, they were less likely than younger participants to eventually produce the complete target idiom (old: 32%; young: 70%); first-word cues after initial failure to retrieve an idiom resulted in more correct idioms for older (24%) than younger (15%) participants. Correlations between age and idiom correctnes... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036976 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5036976 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036975&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21728831%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Barako Arndt K, Schuele CM The purpose of this study was to explore the production of infinitival complements by children with specific language impairment (SLI) as compared with mean length of utterance (MLU)-matched children in an effort to clarify inconsistencies in the literature. Spontaneous language samples were analysed for infinitival complements (reduced infinitives and true infinitives). Participants included children with SLI (n = 19; 5;2-7;10) and children with typical language (n = 19; MLU; 3;0-5;9). There was no group difference in the number of infinitival complements and the number of different complement-taking verbs. However, the SLI group produced more true infinitives than the MLU group. The SLI group was less accurate than the MLU group on inclusio... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036975 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5036975 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036974&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21728832%26dopt%3DAbstract This study aimed to develop a procedure to utilise these values as the basis for subsequent computerised analysis of cleft palate speech. A computer keyboard file and a modified font file were developed using symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet and extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet to improve the computerised storage of phonetic symbols used in cleft palate speech transcription. Computerised coding procedures were written to retrieve hexadecimal values of transcribed symbols and match these to their phonetic attributes as defined in the International Phonetic Alphabet and extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet. Computerised procedures were subsequently developed to analyse transcription data based on these matched hexadecimal values and their associa... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036974 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5036974 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036973&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21728833%26dopt%3DAbstract This article presents a case study of speech production in a 14-year-old Amharic-speaking boy. The boy had developed secondary macroglossia, related to a disturbance of growth hormones, following a history of normal speech development. Perceptual analysis combined with acoustic analysis and static palatography is used to investigate the specific articulatory compensations arising from the macroglossia. The subset of sounds chosen for study were the denti-alveolar and alveolar plosives, fricatives, ejectives, nasal, lateral and trill produced in single words, as well as in short phrases. The phonetic analysis revealed both spatial and temporal atypicalities in the realisations of the sounds in question. Speaking rate was slow relative to his peer's speech and attempts to increase speech rat... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036973 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5036973 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036972&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21728834%26dopt%3DAbstract This article describes the longitudinal development of intonation in 18 deaf children who received cochlear implants (CIs) before the age of 3 years and 12 infants with typical development (TD) who served as controls. At the time their implants were activated, the children with CIs ranged in age from 9 to 36 months. Cross-group comparisons were made when the children had equivalent amounts of robust hearing experience but different chronological ages. This article reports the results for the 6-month period ending 9 months after activation of the child's device for children with CIs, and the 6-month period ending at 12 months of age for TD infants. The findings were compared with a model of early intonation development in children with normal hearing. The results indicated that all groups p... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036972 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5036972 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036971&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21728835%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Cuenca MH, Barrio MM, Anaya P, Establier C The purpose of this investigation is to explore the use by Spanish excellent oesophageal speakers of acoustic cues to mark syllabic stress. The speech material has consisted of five pairs of disyllabic words which only differed in stress position. Total 44 oesophageal and 9 laryngeal speakers were recorded and a computerised designed ad hoc perceptual test was run in order to assess the accurate realisation of stress. The items produced by eight excellent oesophageal speakers with highest accuracy levels in the perception experiment were analysed acoustically with Praat, to be compared with the laryngeal control group. Measures of duration, fundamental frequency, spectral balance and overall intensity were taken for each target vowel ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036971 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5036971 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036970&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21728836%26dopt%3DAbstract This study includes (1) a physiological analysis of videofiberscopic laryngeal data from a healthy Mongolian singer and from three non-singer French-speaking clinical patients; and (2) an acoustical analysis (fundamental frequency and intensity). For the singer, the fiberoptic analysis showed two main laryngeal behaviours in producing ornamentations: (1) 'lyrical' vibratos mobilising the entire laryngeal block; (2) 'Mongolian' trills with essentially supraglottic movements, the arytenoids being mobilised independently of the rest of the laryngeal block. Patients demonstrated similar aryepiglottic trilling to fulfil a function of voicing. The acoustic analysis showed that the fundamental frequency and the intensity were in phase for vibrato, contrary to the 'Mongolian' trills which were in ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036970 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5036970 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4940053&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21668367%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Okalidou A, Karathanasi A, Grigoraki E The purposes of this study were to derive nasalance norms for monolingual Greek speakers, to examine nasalance scores as a function of gender and to draw cross-linguistic comparisons based on normative data. Participants read aloud a corpus of linguistic material, consisting of (1) a nasal text, an oral text and a balanced text; (2) a set of nasal sentences and four sets of oral sentences and (3) repetitions of each of 12 syllable types (8 oral and 4 nasal). The last two sets of material corpus were based on an adaptation of the Simplified Nasometric Assessment Procedures Test (SNAP test) test ( MacKay and Kummer, 1994 ) in Greek, called the G-SNAP test. Eighty monolingual healthy young adult speakers of Greek, 40 males (mean age = 21 yea... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4940053 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4940053 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4940052&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21675824%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Paradis M The Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) is designed to be objective (so it can be administered by a lay native speaker of the language) and equivalent across languages (to allow for a comparison between the languages of a given patient as well as across patients from different institutions). It has been used not only with aphasia but also with any condition that results in language impairment (Alzheimer's, autism, cerebellar lesions, developmental language disorders, mild cognitive impairment, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, vascular dementia, etc.). It has also been used for research purposes on non-brain-damaged unilingual and bilingual populations. By means of its 32 tasks, it assesses comprehension and production of implicit linguistic competence ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4940052 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4940052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893414&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21631305%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Kiran S, Iakupova R The goal of this study was to address the relationship between language proficiency, language impairment and rehabilitation in bilingual Russian-English individuals with aphasia. As a first step, we examined two Russian-English patients' pre-stroke language proficiency using a detailed and comprehensive language use and history questionnaire and evaluated their impairment using the Bilingual Aphasia Test. We then attempted to replicate and extend Kiran and Roberts' study in 2010, examining results of a primarily semantic treatment for anomia in one Russian-English bilingual patient. The patient's ability to name the trained and untrained items in both the trained (English) and untrained (Russian) languages significantly improved by achieving 100% accuracy. ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893414 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4893414 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893404&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21631306%26dopt%3DAbstract This study has also revealed that the Amharic version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test may be viable for testing Amharic-speaking non-literate individuals with aphasia when modifications are incorporated. PMID: 21631306 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893404 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4893404 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893397&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21631307%26dopt%3DAbstract We report on the case of an elderly bilingual woman presenting with a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia. The participant's native language was Friulian (L1), a predominantly oral Romance language, and her second language was Italian (L2), formally learned at primary school in oral and written forms. We investigated her linguistic abilities by means of the Bilingual Aphasia Test ( Paradis, M., & Libben, G. (1987) . The assessment of bilingual aphasia. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), which is specifically devised for studying language levels and skills in bilingual/polyglot individuals with aphasia. Specifically, we focused on different tasks extracted from the Bilingual Aphasia Test, targeting phonology, morphology, syntax and lexical semantics. Results show that bot... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893397 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4893397 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893391&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21631308%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Kurland J, Falcon M As bilingualism becomes less exceptional in the world, and with the growing incidence of stroke and aphasia, a better understanding of how bilingualism affects aphasia recovery is increasingly important. The present study examined the effect of intensive semantic naming therapy in three phases (Spanish, English and mixed) on within- and across-language generalization for cognates and non-cognates, in a bilingual individual with chronic, severe expressive aphasia. We hypothesized that cognates would positively influence cross-linguistic generalization, which might be more likely to occur from L2 to L1. Results indicate relative increases in confrontation naming ability in the following conditions: trained versus untrained, L1 versus L2 or mixed and non-cogna... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893391 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4893391 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893386&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21631309%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Postman WA One of the most widely spoken languages of the world, Bahasa Indonesia (BI), became standardized as the official language of Indonesia. Based on Malay, it served as lingua franca in various forms throughout the Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Although BI has been habitually learned as a second language, the number of native speakers of BI continues to increase. As a member of the Western Austronesian branch of the Austronesian language family, its grammar and usage bear some resemblance to related languages such as Tagalog. At the same time, certain morphosyntactic and pragmatic characteristics of BI that distinguish it from other languages have been the subject of extensive research and deliberation. For these reasons, the clinical utility of adapting the Bil... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893386 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4893386 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893378&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21631310%26dopt%3DAbstract 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' versus 'o' possession and optional topicalisation and focus constructions, particular issues arose in obtaining a rigorous adaptation of the BAT. Methods for ensuring effective adaptation across contrastive language pairs and sociocultural aspects of adapting the BAT to Rarotongan are discussed. Obtaining adaptations from several proficient bilingual consultants, comparing versions and group discussion to resolve discrepancies were used for this adaptation and are recommende... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893378 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4893378 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893369&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21631311%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Achim A, Marquis A Studies of bilingualism sometimes require healthy subjects to be assessed for proficiency at auditory sentence processing in their second language (L2). The Syntactic Comprehension task of the Bilingual Aphasia Test could satisfy this need. For ease and uniformity of application, we automated its English ( Paradis, M., Libben, G., and Hummel, K. (1987) . The Bilingual Aphasia Test. English version. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and French ( Paradis, M., & Goldblum, M. C. (1987) . The Bilingual Aphasia Test, French version. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) versions. Although the Bilingual Aphasia Test is meant to assess neurological disorders affecting language, we hypothesised that ceiling performance in L2 would be rare and L2 e... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893369 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4893369 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893367&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21631312%26dopt%3DAbstract We describe G, who is a relatively young Chinese bilingual speaker with aphasia. G's communication abilities in his L2, Putonghua, were impaired following brain damage. This impairment caused specific difficulties in communication with his wife, a native Putonghua speaker, and was thus a priority for investigation. Given a paucity of standardised tests of aphasia in Putonghua, our goal was to use the BAT to assess G's impairments in his L2. Results showed that G's performance on the BAT subtests measuring word and sentence comprehension and production was impaired. His pattern of performance on the BAT allowed us to generate hypotheses about his higher-level language impairments in Putonghua, which were subsequently found to be impaired. We argue that the BAT is able to capture the primary... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893367 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4893367 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893363&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21631313%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Schneider HD, Hopp JP Minimally verbal children with autism commonly demonstrate language dysfunction, including immature syntax acquisition. We hypothesised that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) should facilitate language acquisition in a cohort (n = 10) of children with immature syntax. We modified the English version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) to test only basic canonical subject-verb-object sentences. We tested syntactic accuracy after teaching then testing all vocabulary from the subsequent syntax test to ensure validity of syntactic scoring. We used scaffolding sentences for syntax training. All procedures were performed both before and after tDCS. Results demonstrated a large effect size of the difference between pre-/post-tDCS groups (p < ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893363 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4893363 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4848245&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21591932%26dopt%3DAbstract This study documents patterns of change in speech production in a multilingual with aphasia following a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). EC, a right-handed Hebrew-English-French trilingual man, had a left fronto-temporo-parietal CVA, after which he reported that his (native) Hebrew accent became stronger in his (second language) English. Recordings of his pre- and post-CVA speech permitted an investigation of changes in his accent. In sentence- and segment-listening tasks, native American English listeners (n = 13 and 15, respectively) judged EC's pre- and post-CVA speech. EC's speech was perceived as more foreign-accented, slow, strained and hesitant, but not less intelligible, post-CVA. Acoustic analysis revealed less coarticulation and longer vowel- and word-durations post-CVA. This ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4848245 Tue, 17 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4848245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4848244&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21591933%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Nordberg A, Carlsson G, Lohmander A Some children with cerebral palsy have articulation disorders that are resistant to conventional speech therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the visual feedback method of electropalatography (EPG) could be an effective tool for treating five children (mean age of 9.4 years) with dysarthria and cerebral palsy and to explore whether training improved the posteriorly placed articulation of the Swedish dental/alveolar target consonants /t/, /d/, /n/ and /s/ produced in different positions. An EPG analysis was conducted and some of the data were combined with a perceptual analysis. A more anterior placement was seen after treatment for the target sounds. Features of diagnostic importance revealed were unusual tongue-palate co... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4848244 Tue, 17 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4848244 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4848243&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21591934%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Matsumoto-Shimamori S, Ito T, Fukuda SE, Fukuda S Shimamori and Ito (2007 , Syllable weight and phonological encoding in Japanese children who stutter. Japanese Journal of Special Education, 44, 451-462; 2008, Syllable weight and frequency of stuttering: Comparison between children who stutter with and without a family history of stuttering. Japanese Journal of Special Education, 45, 437-445; 2009, Difference in frequency of stuttering between light and heavy syllables in the production of monosyllables: From the viewpoint of phonetic transition. The Japanese Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, 50, 116-122 (in Japanese)) proposed the hypothesis that in Japanese the transition from the core vowels (CVs) to the following segments affected the occurrence of stuttering. However... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4848243 Tue, 17 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4848243 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4848242&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21591935%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Hodge MM, Gotzke CL Listeners' identification of young children's productions of minimally contrastive words and predictive relationships between accurately identified words and intelligibility scores obtained from a 100-word spontaneous speech sample were determined for 36 children with typically developing speech (TDS) and 36 children with speech sound disorders (SSD) of unknown origin in three age groups (3+, 4+ and 5+ years). Each child's productions of 78-word stimuli were recorded and presented to unfamiliar adults for forced-choice identification. Results of a two-way MANOVA (two groups by three ages) indicated that the TDS group had significantly higher (p < 0.001) percent consonant items correct (PCIC) and percent syllable shape items correct. Stepwise regression a... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4848242 Tue, 17 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4848242 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4791852&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21469971%26dopt%3DAbstract In this study we investigate the linguistic performance of a school age French-Greek simultaneous bilingual boy with specific language impairment (SLI) on the production of subject-verb agreement, object clitic pronouns and wh-questions. In addition, we compare his performance on these linguistic structures with that of two French-Greek bilingual children with typical development matched on language age. Furthermore, we discuss the performance of the child with SLI in the light of published data from monolingual French and Greek school-age children with SLI, as reported in the relevant literature. The results indicated that the performance of the bilingual French-Greek-speaking child with SLI was highly comparable to that of bilingual French-Greek typically developing children and monoling... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4791852 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4791852 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681465&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21456950%26dopt%3DAbstract In this study, children with hearing aids and cochlear implants did not perform differently from each other. Test age and HL did not interact, indicating parallel but delayed development in children with HL compared with their typically developing peers. Variability was found to be concentrated among the high vowels /[Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]/ but not in the low vowels /[Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]/. The broad findings of this work are consistent with previous reports and contribute a detailed description of point vowel duration not in the literature. PMID: 21456950 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681465 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681465 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681477&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453016%26dopt%3DAbstract We present the case of JZ, a bilingual Basque-Spanish 53-year-old man who, after haematoma in the left basal ganglia, presented with executive deficits and aphasia, characterised by more impaired language processing in Basque, his L1. Assessment with the Bilingual Aphasia Test revealed impaired spontaneous and automatic speech production and speech rate in L1, as well as impaired L2-to-L1 sentence translation. Later observation led to the assessment of verbal and non-verbal executive control, which allowed JZ's impaired performance on language tasks to be related to executive dysfunction. In line with previous research, we report the significant attrition of L1 following damage to the left basal ganglia, reported for the first time in a Basque-Spanish bilingual. Implications for models of ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681477 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681477 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681476&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453033%26dopt%3DAbstract This article presents the results of an acoustic analysis of vowels and plosives/affricates produced by 45 Mandarin-speaking children with hearing impairment. Vowel production is represented and categorized into three groups by vowel space size calculated with normalized F1 and F2 values of corner vowels. The correlation between speech intelligibility and language abilities assessed by the level of word comprehension and the complexity of sentence structure is statistically significant. Vowel space grouping is correlated with speech intelligibility and spike percentage of plosives/affricates production. The generalized linear model analysis also shows that the level of word comprehension and the degree of hearing loss are the two most significant factors in predicting speech intelligibilit... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681476 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681476 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681475&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453036%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigates narrative comprehension and production in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Twelve children with SLI (mean age 5;8 years) and 12 typically developing children (mean age 5;6 years) participated in an eye-tracking experiment designed to investigate online narrative comprehension and production in Catalan- and Spanish-speaking children with SLI. The comprehension task involved the recording of eye movements during the visual exploration of successive scenes in a story, while listening to the associated narrative. With regard to production, the children were asked to retell the story, while once again looking at the scenes, as their eye movements were monitored. During narrative production, children with SLI look at the most semantically relevant areas o... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681475 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681475 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681474&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453037%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Koumanidi Knoph MI The increased occurrence of strokes combined with the high incidence of bilingualism in many regions of the world has led to an increasing number of bilingual adults with aphasia. The literature on bilingual aphasia shows the need for valid, comprehensive and reliable assessment tools for diagnostic and treatment purposes. In spite of a growing number of case studies of bilingual speakers with aphasia, there is still a need for more studies of speakers with different language combinations. This case study describes a Farsi-Norwegian bilingual speaker with aphasia. Data were collected using the Bilingual Aphasia Test in both languages. The aim of this study is to show how assessment of both languages of a bilingual speaker with aphasia may reveal differences ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681474 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681474 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681473&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453038%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Kambanaros M, Grohmann KK The Greek and the English versions of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) were used to assess the linguistic abilities of a premorbidly highly proficient late bilingual female after a haemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident involving the left temporo-parietal lobe. The BAT was administered in the two languages on separate occasions by the first author, a bilingual English-Greek speech pathologist. The results revealed a non-parallel recovery in the two languages. This information will be used not only to guide clinical intervention for the patient but also to provide the first report on the manifestations of aphasia in Greek. Moreover, the use of the (Standard Modern) Greek version of the BAT to investigate Greek Cypriot aphasics has implications for the u... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681473 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681473 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681472&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453039%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Lindgrén SA, Laine M We investigated reading and writing in two domestic languages (Swedish and Finnish) and one foreign language (English) among multilingual university students with (n = 20) versus without dyslexia (n = 20). Our analyses encompassed overall speed and accuracy measures and an in-depth analysis of grapheme-phoneme-grapheme errors and inflectional errors. Dyslexic impairments were most conspicuous in word and sentence segmentation, accuracy in oral text reading, single word writing to dictation and free writing across the three languages, most prominently in English. The writing tasks exhibited significantly higher proportions of phoneme-to-grapheme errors in the dyslexia group, especially in English, and marginal differences in inflectional errors, ag... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681472 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681471&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453042%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Damico JS, Abendroth KJ, Nelson RL, Lynch KE, Damico HL This research report provides additional data, manifestations and discussion about avoidance strategies employed by a language-learning disabled student during reading activities. Rather than seeing avoidance as due to random distractions or oppositional behaviours, these data provide a rationale for viewing many types of avoidance as systematic and compensatory efforts to sustain interactional success in the emergence of linguistic difficulty. PMID: 21453042 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681471 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681471 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681470&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453043%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Peristeri E, Tsapkini K The aim of this study is to test the validity and reliability of the Bilingual Aphasia Test as a measure of language impairment in a Greek-speaking Broca's aphasic population and to investigate relationships with the same aphasic group's performance on the Greek version of the short form of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination battery, mainly focusing on a series of subtests which are shared by the two batteries, yet occasionally differ in content. Correlation analyses showed that the two instruments yielded highly comparable results with respect to the measurement of reading and listening comprehension, as well as in the performance-based measurement of the automated sequence capacity of the patients. Nevertheless, the Bilingual Aphasia Test, as a... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681470 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681470 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681469&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453044%26dopt%3DAbstract We describe our test selection and the assessment it allows us to make. PMID: 21453044 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681469 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681468&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453045%26dopt%3DAbstract This study analysed the capacity of the Catalan and Spanish versions of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) to distinguish between normal and pathological aging. Both versions of the test were administered to 45 bilingual subjects: 15 healthy aging subjects, 15 patients with mild cognitive impairment and 15 patients with Alzheimer's disease. To explore which combination of subtests was best suited to differentiate the three study groups, stepwise discriminant analyses were performed using each version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test separately and together. The percentages of properly classified subjects were as follows: 93.3% when the Spanish version was administered, 88.9% when the Catalan version was administered and 95.6% when both versions were used. The subtests that best classified the s... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681468 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681468 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681467&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453046%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: PMID: 21453046 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681467 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681467 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681466&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21453062%26dopt%3DAbstract We examined children's productions of mainstream and non-mainstream relative clause markers (e.g. that, who, which, what, where, Ø) in African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) as a function of three linguistic variables (syntactic role of the marker, humanness of the antecedent and adjacency of the noun phrase head). The data were language samples from 99 typically developing 4-6-year-olds: 61 spoke AAE and 38 spoke SWE. The majority of the children's relative clauses included mainstream markers. Non-mainstream markers were rare, with 3-6% involving Ø subjects and 2% involving what. The children produced who exclusively as subjects and with human antecedents, where exclusively as locatives and with non-human antecedents and Ø and what primarily as direct objects o... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681466 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4681466 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681480&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21434809%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Howell P, Soukup-Ascencao T, Davis S, Rusbridge S Riley's Stuttering Severity Instrument (SSI) is widely used. The manuals allow SSI assessments to be made in different ways (e.g. from digital recordings or whilst listening to speech live). Digital recordings allow segments to be selected and listened to, whereas the entire recording has to be judged when listened to live. Comparison was made between expert judges when they used these digital and live procedures to establish whether one method was more sensitive and reliable than the other. Five expert judges assessed eight speakers four times each in two judgment conditions (digital vs. live). The eight speakers were chosen so that they spanned a wide range of stuttering severity. SSI version 3 (SSI-3) estimates were obtained... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681480 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4681480 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681479&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21434810%26dopt%3DAbstract 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 psychometric validation go beyond the scope of this article and therefore will not be recorded here. PMID: 21434810 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681479 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4681479 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4681478&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21434812%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigated the efficacy of a novel verb retrieval treatment in two individuals with aphasia who experience verb retrieval difficulty. It involved training verb classes with large (e.g. cut verbs) and limited (e.g. contact verbs) sets of semantic features. Based on action representation theories, semantically based training of cut verbs was predicted to generalize to retrieval of untrained cut and contact verbs. One participant improved on trained verbs whereas the other participant did not. Neither participant demonstrated within nor across-class generalization to untrained verbs. However, both participants significantly improved in verb naming as measured by An Object and Action Naming Battery, and their predominant error pattern changed from noun to verb substitutions. There... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4681478 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4681478 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4627069&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21417737%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Brunner J, Hoole P, Perrier P The purpose of this work is to investigate the role of three articulatory parameters (tongue position, jaw position and tongue grooving) in the production of /s/. Six normal speakers' speech was perturbed by a palatal prosthesis. The fricative was recorded acoustically and through electromagnetic articulography in four conditions: (1) unperturbed, (2) perturbed with auditory feedback masked, (3) perturbed with auditory feedback available and (4) perturbed after a 2-week adaptation period. At the end of the adaptation, speakers produced more high-frequency noise while either having a higher jaw position or more grooving of the tongue or both. We discuss the potential clinical implications of the results with regard to the role of jaw height and ton... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4627069 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4627069 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4508148&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21314340%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: PMID: 21314340 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4508148 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:30:06 +0100 4508148 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4508149&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21275581%26dopt%3DAbstract This study presents a British subject perceived to speak with an Italian (or Greek) accent after a brainstem (pontine) stroke. Native English listeners rated the strength of foreign accent and impairment they perceived in speech of the FAS subject, alongside that of two native English speakers and Italian, Greek, and French L2 speakers acting as controls. The FAS subject was perceived to be as foreign-sounding as the L2 control speakers, but was also perceived as mildly impaired. The FAS subject's own perception of accents was also explored and it was found that his ability to distinguish presence and absence of accent does not seem to be affected. The relationship between listeners' perceptions and features of the FAS speech is explored via correlational statistics and qualitative analysi... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4508149 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4508149 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266519&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21158488%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Hartinger M, Tripoliti E, Hardcastle WJ, Limousin P Parkinson's disease (PD) affects speech in the majority of patients. Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) is particularly effective in reducing tremor and rigidity. However, its effect on speech is variable. The aim of this pilot study was to quantify the effects of bilateral STN-DBS and medication on articulation, using electropalatography (EPG). Two patients, PT1 and PT2, were studied under four conditions: on and off medication and ON and OFF stimulation. The EPG protocol consisted of a number of target words with alveolar and velar stops, repeated 10 times in random order. The motor part III of the Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) indicated significantly improved motor scores in the ON stimul... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266519 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4266519 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266518&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21158501%26dopt%3DAbstract This study evaluates the utility of perioperative spectral and cepstral acoustic analyses to monitor voice change after thyroidectomy. Perceptual and acoustic analyses were conducted on speech samples (sustained vowel /ɑ/ and CAPE-V sentences) provided by 70 participants (36 women and 34 men) at four study time points: prior to thyroid surgery and 2 weeks, 3 months and 6 months after thyroidectomy. Repeated measures analyses of variance focused on the relative amplitude of the dominant harmonic in the voice signal (cepstral peak prominence, CPP), the ratio of low-to-high spectral energy, and their respective standard deviations (SD). Data were also examined for relationships between acoustic measures and perceptual ratings of overall severity of voice quality. Results showed that perceive... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266518 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4266518 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266517&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D21158502%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Cummings AE, Barlow JA The goal of this research programme was to evaluate the role of word lexicality in effecting phonological change in children's sound systems. Four children with functional speech sound disorders (SSDs) were enrolled in an across-subjects multiple baseline single-subject design; two were treated using high-frequency real words (RWs) and two were treated using (low-frequency) non-words (NWs). Dependent variables were learning during treatment, generalization of treated and untreated sounds post-treatment and error consistency indices. The oldest child in the NW group demonstrated slightly greater increases in learning during treatment, and both children demonstrated increases in generalization as well as large decreases in sound error variability. In compa... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266517 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4266517 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4120682&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20977344%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: PMID: 20977344 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4120682 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:35:06 +0100 4120682 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106469&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964502%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: PMID: 20964502 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106469 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:01:08 +0100 4106469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106468&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964503%26dopt%3DAbstract This study argues that echolalic effects can be explained through an analysis of their formal linguistic aspects, such as intonational-prosodic and enunciative-syntactic features. The analysis shows that the description of echolalic repetitions in these terms can help find parameters for the description of the linguistic and communicative characteristics of AD. This analysis even shows how a previous speech turn serves as a base for the elaboration of the next turn by the participant with AD. It also contributes to the understanding of echolalic productions in AD. PMID: 20964503 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106468 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:01:04 +0100 4106468 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106467&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964504%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Cuenca MH, Barrio MM Prosodic information aids segmentation of the continuous speech signal and thereby facilitates auditory speech processing. Durational and pitch variations are prosodic cues especially necessary to convey prosodic boundaries, but alaryngeal speakers have inconsistent control over acoustic parameters such as F0 and duration, being as a result noisy and less intelligible than normal speech. This case study has investigated whether one Spanish alaryngeal speaker proficient in both oesophageal and tracheoesophageal speech modes used the same acoustic cues for prosodic boundaries in both types of voicing. Pre-boundary lengthening, F0-excursions and pausing (number of pauses and position) were measured in spontaneous speech samples, using Praat. The acoustic anal... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106467 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:01:00 +0100 4106467 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106466&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964505%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigates the ability of a group of eight Greek-speaking adolescents with Down Syndrome (DS) (aged 12.1-18.7) to handle the perfective past tense using an acceptability judgement task. The performance of the DS participants was compared with that of 16 typically-developing children whose chronological age was matched with the mental age of the DS group. For existing verbs, both groups showed high accuracy scores for the sigmatic past tense whilst for (potential but non-existing) nonce verbs the DS group performed differently from the controls. Specifically, their judgements were unaffected by a nonce verb's similarity to existing verbs, unlike those of the controls, suggesting that the DS participants were less reliant on similarity-based generalisations when encountering a n... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106466 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:57 +0100 4106466 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106465&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964506%26dopt%3DAbstract This study is the result of a multidisciplinary-team whose work allies linguist, clinical therapy and engineering knowledge. PMID: 20964506 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106465 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:53 +0100 4106465 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106464&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964507%26dopt%3DAbstract This article aims to present the experimental design and the results of this test battery composed of two sub-tests: (i) a naming test with words that belong to three distinct groups: high frequency simple words (HFSW), low frequency simple words (LFSW), and low frequency complex words (LFCW); and (ii) a word repetition test. The variables of literacy, frequency and word morphology, and their effect on the performance of aphasic groups, were correlated in this study. Morphology was the variable that exercised the greatest influence on the verbal production of the participants. PMID: 20964507 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106464 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:48 +0100 4106464 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106463&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964508%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigates how aphasic impairment impinges on syntactic and/or semantic recursivity of human language. A series of tests has been conducted with the participation of five Hungarian speaking aphasic subjects and 10 control subjects. Photographs representing simple situations were presented to subjects and questions were asked about them. The responses are supposed to involve formal structural recursion, but they contain semantic-pragmatic operations instead, with 'theory of mind' type embeddings. Aphasic individuals tend to exploit the parallel between 'theory of mind' embeddings and syntactic-structural embeddings in order to avoid formal structural recursion. Formal structural recursion may be more impaired in Broca's aphasia and semantic recursivity may remain selectively un... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106463 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:40 +0100 4106463 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106462&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964509%26dopt%3DAbstract The objective of this research is to provide an improved automated computational tool to study aphasic production. Using the speech production of Italian aphasic patients, the present study demonstrates the possibility of applying an integrated algorithm to automatically assess and generate error patterns typical of aphasic speech. Philological studies and aphasia studies share one common point: errors (or variants) are informative, and the intention of the authors (in the case of philology) or of the patients (in the case of aphasiology) is to be established. For this precise reason, the present study adapts a tool, originally used in computational philology for the alignment of textual variants ( Boschetti, 2007 , 2008 ), and puts it to use for assessing aphasic patient's speech error pa... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106462 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:24 +0100 4106462 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106461&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964510%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Niemi J, Otsa L, Evtyukova A, Lehtoaro L, Niemi J 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 characteristics of turns, (iii) co-operation features (e.g. shared/non-shared elaboration of themes), (iv) prosody, (v) cognitive aspects (e.g. involvement/commitment, world of discourse) and (vi) affect features, show that the AS speakers describe, rather than narrate their conceptualizations, whether (practically) self-initiated (dyadic discourse) or prompted through pictures (narratives). In previous experimental studie... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106461 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:20 +0100 4106461 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106460&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964511%26dopt%3DAbstract This study focused on inflectional phrase structures as well as complex constructions in order to investigate hypotheses which suggest verbal inflection is a key deficit underlying SLI. It analysed the most affected morphemes in Italian: articles and direct and indirect object clitics. A deficit was found in verbal inflection as well as in articles and object clitics. The difficulties with verbal inflection found were expected given the child's MLU. Problems with articles and clitics were unexpected for MLU, presenting a challenge for hypotheses that focus on verbal inflection. PMID: 20964511 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106460 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:15 +0100 4106460 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4106459&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20964512%26dopt%3DAbstract This study presents the methodology and results of these tasks, and suggests alternative methods of assessing the ability to discern and use contrastive accents in Spanish. PMID: 20964512 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4106459 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:10 +0100 4106459 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4056547&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20932172%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Folker JE, Murdoch BE, Cahill LM, Delatycki MB, Corben LA, Vogel AP Articulatory kinematics were investigated using electromagnetic articulography (EMA) in four dysarthric speakers with Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA). Specifically, tongue-tip and tongue-back movements were recorded by the AG-200 EMA system during production of the consonants /t/ and /k/ as produced within a sentence utterance and during a rapid syllable repetition task. The results obtained for each of the participants with FRDA were individually compared to those obtained by a control group (n = 10). Results revealed significantly greater movement durations and increased articulatory distances, most predominantly during the approach phase of consonant production. A task difference was observed with lingual kinema... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4056547 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0100 4056547 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4037210&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20919803%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Faroqi-Shah Y, Thompson CK There are several accounts of why some individuals with post-stroke aphasia experience difficulty in producing morphologically complex verbs. Although a majority of these individuals also produce syntactically flawed utterances, at least two accounts focus on word-level encoding operations. One account proposes a difficulty with rule-governed affixation, predicting that verbs without affixes (stems and irregular past) should be produced with ease. The second account emphasises the contribution of phonological encoding, noting that morphological complexity is often confounded by phonological complexity. The present study investigated the effect of morphological complexity (presence vs. absence of affixes) on verb production when phonological complexit... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4037210 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0100 4037210 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4037209&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20919805%26dopt%3DAbstract This study reports on the case of a 27-year-old Spanish/English simultaneous bilingual whose dominant language is English. Speech and language testing was performed in both languages (language repetition, language understanding, vocabulary, reading, verbal fluency, spontaneous speech and conversational speech). Some differences in the stuttering distribution were found: stuttering in adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions occurred at least twice as much in Spanish as in English; stuttering was also more frequent in verbs in Spanish. Some hypotheses are presented to explain the differences in stuttering severity in both languages. It seems that when comparing stuttering in two different languages in the same subject, it is possible to find similarities in the stuttering pattern, suggesting ge... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4037209 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0100 4037209 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4037213&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20887214%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Moore MW, Tompkins CA, Dollaghan CA The purpose of this paper was to examine the psychometric properties of a non-word repetition task (NRT), the Late-8 Non-word Repetition Task (L8NRT). This task was designed similarly to the NRT, but contains only Late-8 consonants to increase articulatory demands and avoid ceiling effects in studies with adolescents and adults. Thirty college students were administered the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised/Normative Update WRMT-RNU, L8NRT and NRT. Results showed that inter- and intra-rater reliability of the L8NRT were high; split-half reliability was significant and comparable to that of the NRT. Average L8NRT scores were significantly lower than NRT scores overall and at all non-word lengths but the shortest (1 syllable). Both measur... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4037213 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0100 4037213 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4037212&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20887215%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Hessler DX, Jonkers R, Bastiaanse R Individuals with aphasia have more problems detecting small differences between speech sounds than larger ones. This paper reports how phonemic processing is impaired and how this is influenced by speechreading. A non-word discrimination task was carried out with ‘audiovisual’, ‘auditory only’ and ‘visual only’ stimulus display. Subjects had to decide whether two presented stimuli were the same. Six aphasic subjects with speech sound processing difficulties and 14 non-brain-damaged control subjects participated in this study. It was found that the aphasic subjects have difficulties in discriminating pairs of non-words, which are more profound for small differences. Differences... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4037212 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0100 4037212 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4037211&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20887216%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Tjaden K, Wilding G Intelligibility tests for dysarthria typically provide an estimate of overall severity for speech materials elicited through imitation or read from a printed script. The extent to which these types of tasks and procedures reflect intelligibility for extemporaneous speech is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to compare intelligibility estimates obtained for a reading passage and an extemporaneous monologue produced by12 speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD). The relationship between structural characteristics of utterances and scaled intelligibility was explored within speakers. Speakers were audio-recorded while reading a paragraph and producing a monologue. Speech samples were separated into individual utterances for presentation to 70 li... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4037211 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0100 4037211 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3969707&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20831376%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Kim H, Martin K, Hasegawa-Johnson M, Perlman A This paper analyses consonant articulation errors in dysarthric speech produced by seven American-English native speakers with cerebral palsy. Twenty-three consonant phonemes were transcribed with diacritics as necessary in order to represent non-phoneme misarticulations. Error frequencies were examined with respect to six variables: articulatory complexity, place of articulation, and manner of articulation of the target phoneme; and change in articulatory complexity, place, and manner resulting from the misarticulation. Results showed that target phonemes with high articulatory complexity were most often misarticulated, independent of intelligibility, but low-intelligibility speakers reduced the complexity of target consonants mo... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3969707 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:39:18 +0100 3969707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3969706&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20831377%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Adi-Bensaid L, Ben-David A This paper studies the developmental stages of word initial consonant clusters (CCs) in the speech of six monolingual Israeli Hebrew (IH) acquiring hearing impaired children using cochlear implant (CI). Focusing on the patterns of cluster reduction, this study compares the CI children with typically-developing hearing children. All the CI children, three boys and three girls with age ranged from 1;5-2;8 years at their first recording session, were with pre-lingual hearing impairment with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Productions of word initial CCs were elicited in an isolated-word picture-naming task combined with spontaneously produced words. Data collection started 2-4 months after implantation and continued until the correct production of... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3969706 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:39:14 +0100 3969706 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3969705&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20831378%26dopt%3DAbstract This report describes three extensions to a classification system for paediatric speech sound disorders termed the Speech Disorders Classification System (SDCS). Part I describes a classification extension to the SDCS to differentiate motor speech disorders from speech delay and to differentiate among three sub-types of motor speech disorders. Part II describes the Madison Speech Assessment Protocol (MSAP), an ∼ 2-hour battery of 25 measures that includes 15 speech tests and tasks. Part III describes the Competence, Precision, and Stability Analytics (CPSA) framework, a current set of ∼ 90 perceptual- and acoustic-based indices of speech, prosody, and voice used to quantify and classify sub-types of Speech Sound Disorders (SSD). A companion paper provides reliability estimates fo... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3969705 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:39:10 +0100 3969705 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3969704&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20831379%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Shriberg LD, Fourakis M, Hall SD, Karlsson HB, Lohmeier HL, McSweeny JL, Potter NL, Scheer-Cohen AR, Strand EA, Tilkens CM, Wilson DL A companion paper describes three extensions to a classification system for paediatric speech sound disorders termed the Speech Disorders Classification System (SDCS). The SDCS uses perceptual and acoustic data reduction methods to obtain information on a speaker's speech, prosody, and voice. The present paper provides reliability estimates for the two perceptual methods (narrow phonetic transcription; prosody-voice coding) and the acoustic analysis methods the SDCS uses to describe and classify a speaker's speech competence, precision, and stability. Speech samples from 10 speakers, five with significant motor speech disorder and five with typi... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3969704 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:39:06 +0100 3969704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3881188&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20707655%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Oi M The present study compared 12 Japanese children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFASD), ranging in age from 7.3-14.8 years, with 12 typically developing (TD) children matched for age, gender, and vocabulary. The means of full-scale IQ and verbal-IQ of the children with HFASD were 95.92 (SD = 15.30) and 98.00 (SD = 18.44), respectively. Children responded to questions from their mothers in conversations collected under a semi-structured setting, and the responses of both groups were examined from the viewpoint of adequacy. Compared to TD children, HFASD children produced more inadequate responses to Wh-questions than to Yes/No questions. To both types of questions, HFASD children produced more inappropriate responses than TD children. The findings suggest t... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3881188 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:03:09 +0100 3881188 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3832317&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20687828%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigated the relationship between acoustic spectral/cepstral measures and listener severity ratings in normal and disordered voice samples. CAPE-V sentence samples and the vowel /a/were elicited from eight normal speakers and 24 patients with varying degrees of dysphonia severity. Samples were analysed for measures of the cepstral peak prominence (CPP), the ratio of low-to-high spectral energy, and their respective standard deviations. Perceptual ratings of overall severity were also obtained for all samples. Results showed that all acoustic variables combined in a four-factor model which correlated with perceived severity with R = 0.81 (R(2) = 0.65). For the vowel /a/, a five-factor model incorporating all acoustic variables and gender correlated with perceived severity wit... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3832317 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3832317 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3773344&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20635862%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Topbaş S, Unal O A single-subject alternating treatment design in combination with a staggered multiple baseline model across subjects was implemented with two 6:0 year-old girls, monozygotic twins, who were referred to a university clinic for evaluation and treatment. The treatment programme was structured according to variants of minimal pair contrast treatment in which the target sounds and their oppositions were selected according to either minimal or maximal opposition (including major-class differences) contrast treatments to evaluate which of the sound selection strategy would result in better learning. Independent variables were the minimal and maximal opposition conditions; dependent variables were the target phonemes treated. Consistent with the literature, maxima... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3773344 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:36:09 +0100 3773344 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3773342&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20635863%26dopt%3DAbstract This study aims at investigating the production of the Greek modal and negative particles by non-fluent aphasic patients. These particles belong to the highest part of the verb periphrasis, so they are likely to be impaired in non-fluent aphasia, according to some hypotheses about agrammatic language. Moreover, there is an agreement relation between modality and negation, allowing the examination of agreement relationships in the clause domain. The data are compared to the predictions of recent theories on agrammatic language. The data provide evidence that modality is impaired in agrammatic aphasia, whilst agreement relations between clausal elements are spared. PMID: 20635863 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3773342 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:36:06 +0100 3773342 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3641618&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20524848%26dopt%3DAbstract This study investigated whether children with language learning disability (LLD) differed from typically-developing peers in their ability to learn meanings of novel words presented during reading. Fifteen 9-11-year-old children with LLD and 15 typically-developing peers read four passages containing 20 nonsense words. Word learning was assessed through oral definition and multiple-choice tasks. Variables were position of informative context, number of exposures, part of speech, and contextual clues. The LLD group scored lower than same-aged peers on oral definition (p < .001) and multiple-choice (p < .001) tasks. For both groups, there was no effect for position of informative context (p = .867) or number of exposures (p = .223). All children benefitted from contextual clues. The fi... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3641618 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3641618 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3641617&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20524849%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Bressmann T, Flowers H, Wong W, Irish JC The goal of this study was to quantitatively describe aspects of coronal tongue movement in different anatomical regions of the tongue. Four normal speakers and a speaker with partial glossectomy read four repetitions of a metronome-paced poem. Their tongue movement was recorded in four coronal planes using two-dimensional B-mode ultrasound imaging. Quantitative indicators of tongue function (total distance travelled and concavity) were calculated. In all participants, it was observed that the centre of the tongue travelled greater distances than the lateral free margins. The tongues of the female speakers F1 and F2 travelled greater distances than those of the males M1 and M2. The greatest distances travelled were observed in the speak... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3641617 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3641617 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3641616&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20524850%26dopt%3DAbstract We report on the application of the strategy in constructing a Danish CDI short form and present some results illustrating the validity of the short form. Finally we discuss the choice of the most appropriate age for language screening based on a vocabulary score. PMID: 20524850 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3641616 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3641616 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568359&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20462358%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Okalidou A, Petinou K, Theodorou E, Karasimou E The current investigation examined the development of voice onset time (VOT) in Standard-Greek (SG) and Cypriot-Greek (CG)-speaking children at age levels 2;0-2;5, 2;6-2;11, 3;0-3;5, and 3;6-4;0 years. SG presents with a two-way voicing contrast (voiced and voiceless unaspirated stops) whereas CG is a three-way contrast dialect containing voiceless unaspirated, voiceless aspirated, and pre-voiced stops. A cross-sectional design was used. The main goals were: (1) to determine the age at which Greek and Cypriot Greek children acquire voicing contrasts, and (2) to examine the mechanism used during the process of acquisition. Stimuli included pseudo words in minimal pair contrasts differing in stop voicing (e.g. [|gaga] vs [|kaka]). ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568359 Tue, 11 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3568359 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568358&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20462359%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Howell P, Bailey E, Kothari N Three schemes for assessing stuttering were compared. They differed with respect to whether they included whole-word repetitions as characteristics more typical of stuttering. Persistent and recovered groups of children were examined to see whether: (1) one of the schemes differentiated the groups better than others; (2) more and less typical of stuttering characteristics changed over ages in different ways for the groups; and (3) the changes over ages of more and less typical of stuttering classes depended on word type. Twenty-six children who stuttered were classified as persistent or recovered and recorded at three ages between 8-12+ years. Stuttering characteristics were obtained according to the three schemes. The results show: (1) All scheme... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568358 Tue, 11 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3568358 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568357&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20462360%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Gauster A, Yunusova Y, Zajac D 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/ segments in the word 'hamper' and the utterances 'Mama made some lemon jam' (MMJ) and 'Buy Bobby a puppy' (BBP). SPL was collected simultaneously with aerodynamic data for all utterances. A Nasometer was used to obtain nasalance scores and nasalance distance for MMJ and BBP. Sentences were produced at normal, fast, slow, and slowest speaking rates. The results showed that nasal airflow and VP orifice area were unaffected by speaking... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568357 Tue, 11 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3568357 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568356&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20462361%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Pearce WM, James DG, McCormack PF This research investigated whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) and non-specific language impairment (NLI) could be differentiated by their oral narrative characteristics. Oral narrative samples were collected from 69 children and comparisons were made among four groups of participants. The two language impairment groups (SLI and NLI), aged 4;11-6;03, were matched for age and their linguistics skills. Their oral narratives were compared between these diagnostic groups and with age-matched and language-matched control groups. Measures of narrative structure, cohesion, and information did not significantly differentiate the SLI and NLI groups, suggesting that the influence of their similar linguistic skills on oral narrative ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568356 Tue, 11 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3568356 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3259973&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20144076%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Rothweiler M, Chilla S, Babur E Language disorders, and Specific Language Impairment (SLI), have been extensively studied in a number of different, though thus far almost exclusively Indoeuropean, languages. For other languages such as Turkish, Vietnamese, or Arabic, however, findings on the outcome of SLI are rare. In this context, the growing number of migrant children in European countries with a variety of first languages can be seen as a challenge to linguistics and to language assessment: The lack of empirical findings on SLI in these languages brings up the question of how the impairment is manifested in bilingual children with a migrant background. In order for a language disorder to correctly be labelled SLI, it needs to be identified in both languages. This paper pre... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3259973 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3259973 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3251896&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20136498%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Sealey LR, Giddens CL Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is characterized as a deficit in the motor processes of speech for the volitional control of the articulators, including the velum. One of the many characteristics attributed to children with CAS is intermittent or inconsistent hypernasality. The purpose of this study was to document differences in velopharyngeal function in children diagnosed with CAS from children with typically-developing speech. Pressure-flow techniques were used to estimate the velopharyngeal port size and measure the temporal sequencing of airflow and pressure events associated with production of a nasal + oral plosive sequence in the speech of three children with CAS and three age-matched comparison participants. The results of this pilot study rev... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3251896 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3251896 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3251895&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20136504%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Roussel N, Oxley J This perceptual study describes changes in how listeners perceive VCV elements within successive truncations taken from an iambic phrase containing /l/ (e.g. a leaf, or a load) spoken by four male speakers of General American English. Evidence of the respective roles of dorsal gestural affiliation between /l/ and the reduced vowel, (V(1)CV(2)), and gestural separation from a tautosyllabic high front vowel (V(2)) were demonstrated. Coproduction of dark-l with a preceding reduced vowel was evident in early reports of back vowels or diphthongs, particularly when the carrier word contained a front vowel, and was noted more in darker-l than lighter-l speakers. The pairing of /l/ with a tautosyllabic front vowel reduced earlier identification of /l/, whereas its p... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3251895 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3251895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3251894&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20136505%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Steeve RW, Price CM An empirical method for investigating differences in neural control of jaw movement across oromandibular behaviours is to compute the coherence function for electromyographic signals obtained from mandibular muscle groups. This procedure has been used with adults but not extended to children. This pilot study investigated if coherence analysis could reveal task-related differences in control for children by measuring mandibular electromyograms obtained from an infant and adult. Electromyographic signals were obtained from bilateral masseter and temporalis muscle groups during chewing and babble from a typically developing infant from 8-22 months, and chewing and speech were obtained from an adult. Coherence functions were computed. Measures obtained from th... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3251894 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3251894 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3251893&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20136506%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Knight RA Transcription skills are crucially important to all phoneticians, and particularly for speech and language therapists who may use transcriptions to make decisions about diagnosis and intervention. Whilst interest in factors affecting transcription accuracy is increasing, there are still a number of issues that are yet to be investigated. The present paper considers how the number of voices and the number of repetitions affects the transcription of nonsense words. Thirty-two students in their second year of study for a BSc in Speech and Language Therapy were participants in an experiment. They heard two nonsense words presented 10 times in either one or two voices. Results show that the number of voices did not affect accuracy, but that accuracy increased between six ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3251893 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3251893 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3251887&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20136507%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Rupela V, Manjula R, Velleman SL Phonological process analysis was carried out using a 40-word imitation task with 30 11;6-14;6 year old Kannada-speaking persons with Down syndrome in comparison with 15 non-verbal mental age matched typically developing children. Percentages of occurrence were significantly higher for the Down syndrome group with certain exceptions. Some phonological processes were observed only in the Down syndrome group. Kannada is a non-Indo European language spoken in the southern Indian state of Karnataka that has not had much research attention, especially with respect to persons with communication disorders. This paper highlights the phonological processes observed in school-aged persons with Down syndrome, some of which are similar to those observed in... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3251887 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3251887 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3209370&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20100040%26dopt%3DAbstract This study characterizes, in detail, teachers' use of prompting, hinting, and supplying a model. From a classroom dataset of 53 instances, several distinctive patterns emerged. A prompted completion sequence is initiated by a 'word retrieval elicitor' ('fishing::') and is interpreted as a request to complete the phrase. Non-verbal prompting is accomplished through a combination of gaze and gesture and, also, as a series of prompts. Hinting supplies a verbal clue, typically via a wh-question, or by specifying the nature of the repairable. In contrast, the strategies that supply a linguistic model include both embedded and exposed corrections and offers of candidates. A sequential relationship was found between prompting, hinting, and supplying a model which has implications for how clinicia... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3209370 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:08:16 +0100 3209370 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3209369&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20100041%26dopt%3DAbstract This study compared the use of English past tense in a group of Spanish-English bilingual children with language impairment (BLI) to younger groups of bilinguals with typical and atypical language development reported in an earlier study. Ten children with BLI enrolled in 3rd-6th grade participated. Children supplied 12 regular, 12 irregular, and 12 novel past tense verbs on an elicitation task. The results demonstrated that despite 2.5 years of school exposure, older children with BLI still lagged in the production of regular and novel past tense verbs when compared to the younger typically developing (TD) controls. Although the rates of productive errors on irregular verbs increased, the older students nonetheless failed to achieve rates of over-regularization comparable to the younger T... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3209369 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:08:13 +0100 3209369 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3209368&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20100042%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Gierut JA, Morrisette ML The purpose was to evaluate the lexicality of treated stimuli relative to phonological learning by preschool children with functional phonological disorders. Four children were paired in a single-subject alternating treatments design that was overlaid on a multiple baseline across subjects design. Within each pair, one child was taught one sound in real words and a second sound in non-words; for the other child of the pair, lexicality was reversed and counterbalanced. The dependent variable was production accuracy of the treated sounds as measured during the session-by-session course of instruction. Results indicated that production accuracy of the treated sound was as good as or better using non-word as opposed to real word stimuli. The clinical impli... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3209368 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:08:11 +0100 3209368 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3209367&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20100043%26dopt%3DAbstract This study proposes an automatic method for the detection of pauses and identification of pause types in conversational speech for the purpose of measuring the effects of Friedreich's Ataxia (FRDA) on speech. Speech samples of approximately 3 minutes were recorded from 13 speakers with FRDA and 18 healthy controls. Pauses were measured from the intensity contour and fit with bimodal lognormal distributions using the Expectation-Maximization algorithm in Matlab((c)). In the speakers with FRDA, both modes in the pause distributions had significantly larger means, with disproportionately fewer pauses associated with the first mode. From this preliminary study, it is concluded that distributional analysis of pause duration holds promise as a useful method of measuring the effects of FRDA on fu... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3209367 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:08:08 +0100 3209367 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3209366&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20100044%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Sidtis DV, Kempler D, Jackson C, Metter EJ Controversy remains about the impairment of prosody in aphasia, particularly with regard to speech timing. This paper addresses this topic through an analysis of timing in four sets of a common morphological paradigm. The paradigm consisted of a basic form (stem) and two longer derived forms (e.g. zip, zipper, zippering). Normally, vowel durations are shorter in longer derived forms (e.g. zippering) than in the stem (e.g. zip), due to a process called 'initial shortening'. Twelve patients with aphasia (four each Broca, Wernicke, and Anomic), and 11 age-matched healthy adults were assessed. Structural (CT) and functional brain imaging (PET) were available for all patients. While all groups showed initial shortening between the stem and... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3209366 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:08:05 +0100 3209366 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3122403&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20030550%26dopt%3DAbstract This study addresses this issue, using conversation analysis (CA) to examine the emergence of inflexibility, a behavioural trait symptomatic of ASD, during play involving an adult and diagnosed child. We argue that 'inflexibility' is the product of the child's strategic attempts to retain control over the unfolding interaction, within a context where such attempts breach normative expectations about adult-child play. Furthermore, it demonstrates that the adult does not resist these attempts, on occasion even explicitly providing opportunity for subsequent inflexibility. This challenges the assumption that ASD's behavioural profile solely represents the endpoint of underlying deficit, and demonstrates how 'non-impaired' speakers can be implicated in the manifestation of symptomatic behaviou... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3122403 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:46:17 +0100 3122403 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3122402&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20030551%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Grigos MI, Kolenda N Jaw movement patterns were examined longitudinally in a 3-year-old male with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and compared with a typically developing control group. The child with CAS was followed for 8 months, until he began accurately and consistently producing the bilabial phonemes /p/, /b/, and /m/. A movement tracking system was used to study jaw duration, displacement, velocity, and stability. A transcription analysis determined the percentage of phoneme errors and consistency. Results showed phoneme-specific changes which included increases in jaw velocity and stability over time, as well as decreases in duration. Kinematic parameters became more similar to patterns seen in the controls during final sessions where tokens were produced most accurat... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3122402 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:46:14 +0100 3122402 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3122401&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20030552%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Laaksonen JP, Rieger J, Happonen RP, Harris J, Seikaly H The purpose of this study was to use acoustic analyses to describe speech outcomes over the course of 1 year after radial forearm free flap (RFFF) reconstruction of the tongue. Eighteen Canadian English-speaking females and males with reconstruction for oral cancer had speech samples recorded (pre-operative, and 1 month, 6 months, and 1 year post-operative). Acoustic characteristics of formants (F1, F2), fundamental frequency (F0), and duration of 699 vowel and diphthong tokens were analysed. Furthermore, the changes in size of the vowel space area were studied, as well as the effects of radiation therapy (RT) and inclusion of the floor of the mouth (FOM) in the reconstruction. RFFF reconstruction was found to affect sev... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3122401 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:46:11 +0100 3122401 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3122400&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20030553%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Barnes S, Armstrong E Despite the well documented pragmatic deficits that can arise subsequent to Right Hemisphere Brain Damage (RHBD), few researchers have directly studied everyday conversations involving people with RHBD. In recent years, researchers have begun applying Conversation Analysis (CA) to the everyday talk of people with aphasia. This research programme has provided novel insights into the complex inter-relationship between impairment, language use, and interactional organization. This paper will argue that the detailed, inductive approach of CA is well suited to investigating pragmatic communication disorders resulting from RHBD, and will help to elaborate previous findings about RHBD and conversation. In particular, this paper will review and discuss previous i... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3122400 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:46:08 +0100 3122400 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3122399&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20030554%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Abdalla F, Robb MP, Al-Shatti T The purpose of this study was to test whether the content and function word dichotomy of speech disfluency found in English-speaking adults who stutter (AWS) was evident in a language other than English. A group of adult Arabic-speaking AWS were sampled across spontaneous speaking, oral reading, and single-word naming tasks. Moments of disfluency were identified and examined in regard to lexical category. Results indicated no significant differences in the amount of disfluency occurring on content and function words. The production of combined content-function words, a unique feature of the Arabic language, was associated with a high level of disfluency. The linguistic bases of stuttering are discussed in regard to language-specific influences. ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3122399 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:46:05 +0100 3122399 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3102430&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20001302%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Topbaş S, Ball MJ, Powell TW, Müller N PMID: 20001302 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3102430 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3102430 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3102429&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20001303%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Kristoffersen KE The literature on grammatical skills in persons with Cri du chat syndrome (CCS) is very limited, and the need for more knowledge in this area is thus evident, in particular for speech and language therapists working with individuals with this syndrome. This case study report describes the syntactic skills of a 14-year-old Norwegian girl with CCS. The theoretical framework is construction grammar. Data for the study were collected in a diary by the author over a period of 4 months and make up a corpus of 552 utterances. These utterances are described in terms of MLU, diversity of argument structure constructions, proportion and types of complex utterances, use of auxiliaries, as well as deviant word order patterns, types of omissions, and use of prefabricated u... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3102429 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3102429 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3102428&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20001304%26dopt%3DAbstract This article discusses some simple measurements for the analysis of semi-spontaneous oral text production by speakers with aphasia. Specifically, the measurements are related to the production of verbs and nouns, and the realization of different sentence types. The proposed measurements should be clinically relevant, easily applicable, and linguistically meaningful. The measurements have been applied to oral descriptions of the 'Cookie Theft' picture by eight monolingual Norwegian speakers, four with an anomic type of aphasia and four without any type of language impairment. Despite individual differences in both the clinical and the non-clinical group, most of the measurements seem to distinguish between speakers with and without aphasia. PMID: 20001304 [PubMed - in process] (Source: ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3102428 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3102428 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3102427&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20001305%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Rutter B This paper presents some findings from a case study of repair sequences in conversations between a dysarthric speaker, Chris, and her interactional partners. It adopts the methodology of interactional phonetics, where turn design, sequence organization, and variation in phonetic parameters are analysed in unison. The analysis focused on the use of segmental and prosodic variation found during attempts by Chris to repair a previously identified trouble source. The results indicate that trouble sources were extremely common in the recorded conversations, but that repair attempts were almost always communicatively successful. Analysis of the fragments revealed that repair sequences are often collaborative achievements, with the participant's conversational partners signa... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3102427 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3102427 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3102426&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20001306%26dopt%3DAbstract In this study, EPG and acoustic data were recorded during complex word final /sps/ clusters spoken by 20 normal adults. A total contact (TC) index measured amount of tongue-palate contact during clusters in words such as 'crisps'. Bilabial closure was inferred from the acoustic signal. The TC profiles indicated that normal adults hold their tongues in a steady /s/-like position throughout the cluster; most speakers (85%, n=17) had no significant difference in TC values during bilabial closure compared to flanking fricatives. The results are interpreted as showing that normal speakers produce double bilabial-alveolar articulations for /p/ in these clusters. Although steady state TC profiles were typical of the group, absolute TC values varied considerably between speakers, with some speaker... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3102426 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3102426 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3102425&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20001307%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Timmins C, Cleland J, Wood SE, Hardcastle WJ, Wishart JG Speech production in young people with Down's syndrome has been found to be variable and inconsistent. Errors tend to be more in the production of sounds that typically develop later, for example, fricatives and affricates, rather than stops and nasals. It has been suggested that inconsistency in production is a result of a motor speech deficit. Late acquired fricatives such as /s/ and /integral/ are complex articulations, which may require more precise motor programming and may therefore show highly inconsistent productions. Other factors potentially affecting speech production in this population are abnormal palatal structure, hearing loss, and hypotonia. A group of 20 young people with Down's syndrome were recorded us... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3102425 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3102425 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3102424&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20001308%26dopt%3DAbstract In this study, participants with Down's syndrome, aged 10:1 to 18:9, received 24 individualized therapy sessions using EPG. Simultaneous acoustic and EPG recordings were made pre- and post-intervention during 10 repetitions of a word list containing lingua-palatal consonants. Participants also completed the DEAP phonology sub-test at both time points. Post-treatment, all participants showed qualitative and quantifiable differences in EPG patterns and improvements in DEAP percentage consonants correct. EPG assessment and therapy appears a positive approach for identifying and improving articulatory patterns in children with DS. PMID: 20001308 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3102424 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3102424 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3102423&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D20001309%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Miyakoda H, Imatomi S Phonological awareness has been claimed to play an important role in the development of language skills, and it is essential that the child's phonological skills be assessed accurately in order to predict and to take early measures to help those that may encounter problems. Although the mora has attracted much attention in the discussion of phonological knowledge and phonological skills of Japanese, to our knowledge there are no previous studies that have assessed disordered speech of Japanese purely from the viewpoint of prosodic levels higher than the mora. In order to fill in this gap, this paper will present data from a child with 'unintelligible speech'. The longitudinal data (4; 11 to 8;6) collected from spontaneous Japanese speech were analysed fro... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3102423 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3102423 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2972097&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19891520%26dopt%3DAbstract 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 emerged: (1) PD patients produced normal FL, and (2) FL influenced vowels more than consonants. These findings suggest that PD speakers had no difficulty with FL and that there is a progressive lengthening across the sub-constituents of the final syllable. More fundamentally, these results indicate that the syntactic function of prosody is intact in PD patients, at least during the early and mild stages of the disease. PMID: 19891520 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Ling... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2972097 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2972097 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2972096&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19891521%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Ayyad H, Bernhardt BM An overview of Kuwaiti Arabic is presented, with very preliminary data from two typically developing brothers (ages 2;4 and 5;2) and a 6-year-old with a severe sensorineural hearing impairment. The siblings show early mastery of many aspects of the complex Arabic phonological system, with universally expected later mastery of coronal fricatives and /r/. The 6-year-old shows patterns typical of children with hearing impairments, e.g. hypernasality, a prevalence of 'visible' segments, particularly labials, and simplified syllable structure. Her accurate use of /l/, /r/, and some gutturals, however, raise questions about the enhanced perceptibility and functionality of these segments in Arabic. PMID: 19891521 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Lingu... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2972096 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2972096 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2972095&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19891522%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Mok Z, Kipka PF Given the growing evidence of the integral role that semantic development plays in normal child syntactic acquisition, it is very likely that lexical-semantic deficits can have ramifications for a child's grammar. This paper illustrates how semantics and syntax interact in a case study of a child, 5;3 years, with apparent grammatical deficits. Using concepts from Principles and Parameters Theory, a language sample analysis revealed that what appeared to be purely grammatical deficits arose via underlying lexical-semantic mechanisms. Language sample analyses to adequately guide intervention planning may thus need to move beyond superficial surface structures and utilize linguistic frameworks capable of addressing the interaction among language-internal component... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2972095 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2972095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2972094&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19891523%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Awan SN, Roy N, Dromey C The purpose of the study was to identify a sub-set of spectral/cepstral-based analysis methods that would most effectively predict dysphonia severity (as estimated via auditory-perceptual analysis) in samples of continuous speech. Acoustic estimates of dysphonia severity were used as an objective treatment outcomes measure in a set of pre- vs post-treatment speech samples. Pre- and post-treatment continuous speech samples from 104 females with primary muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) were rated by listeners using a 100 point visual analogue scale (VAS) and analysed acoustically with spectral/cepstral-based measures. Stepwise linear regression produced a three-factor model consisting of the cepstral peak prominence (CPP); the mean ratio of low-to-high fre... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2972094 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2972094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2972093&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19891524%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Robb MP, Chen Y Use of /h/ in the phrase, 'Say /hVC/ again' has been tacitly assumed to provide a neutral phonetic context in which to study the articulatory characteristics of speech either preceding or following /h/ articulation. Yet, assessment of the stability or neutrality of /h/ has gone untested. The current study sought to determine whether articulation of /h/ differs according to sex and language accent, as well as to examine its influence on subsequent vowel articulation. Selected acoustic features of /hVC/ were measured in 40 speakers of American English (AE) and 40 speakers of Mandarin-accented English (MAE). Results of an analysis of /h/ duration revealed no sex differences within each language group, however considerable variation was found according to accented ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2972093 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2972093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2967872&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19883183%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Hernández-Sacristán C, Rosell-Clari V Oral conversational data are deemed to be a relevant empirical source when it comes to formulating and supporting hypotheses about cognitive processes involved in aphasic linguistic production. With this assumption in mind, free conversational uses of the Spanish and Catalan connector QUE by fluent and non-fluent aphasic speakers are examined by contrasting them with normal speakers' (i.e. conversational partners') productions. Strictly ungrammatical uses in aphasic speakers are practically non-existent in free conversation. Nevertheless, this data permits one to characterize the aphasic production of the morpheme QUE as restrictive--to different degrees--with respect to normal production. Moreover, this restriction, selectively ... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2967872 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2967872 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2967871&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19883184%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Cosyns M, Van Herreweghe A, Christiaens G, Van Borsel J The purpose of this communication is to report on the occurrence of stutter-like behaviour in Flemish Sign Language users. A questionnaire was sent to 38 Flemish Sign Language interpreters and 28 employees of special needs schools adapted to deaf and partially deaf pupils inquiring whether they had ever observed dysfluencies in the manual communication of the deaf and partially deaf. Of the 13 individuals who responded, nine indicated to have perceived such behaviour. The characteristics of the observed dysfluencies are summarized and implications are discussed. PMID: 19883184 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2967871 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2967871 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2967870&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19883185%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Lundeborg I, McAllister A, Samuelsson C, Ericsson E, Hultcrantz E Adeno-tonsillar hypertrophy with obstructive sleep disordered breathing (OSDB) is known to affect oral-motor function, behaviour, and academic performance. Adeno-tonsillectomy is the most frequently performed operation in children, with total tonsillectomy (TE) being more common than partial resection, 'tonsillotomy' (TT). In the present study 67 children, aged 50-65 months, with OSBD were randomized to TE or TT. The children's phonology was assessed pre-operatively and 6 months post-operatively. Two groups of children served as controls. Phonology was affected in 62.7% of OSBD children before surgery, compared to 34% in the control group (p < .001). Also, OSBD children had more severe phonological deficits t... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2967870 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2967870 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2967869&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19883186%26dopt%3DAbstract This study aims to measure the speech intelligibility of Mandarin-English speakers with dysarthria before and after phonation therapy, in order to determine the effectiveness of this approach. A within-group design was used with two case studies which allowed one to measure therapy variables (single word and sentences); language variables (Mandarin and English); and speech production variables (respiration, phonation, articulation, resonance, and prosody). Both participants demonstrated highly significant improvement in Mandarin intelligibility scores after therapy compared with minimal changes in English intelligibility. These results demonstrate for the first time that phonation therapy is effective in increasing intelligibility, for Mandarin more than for English. Phonation therapy is a... Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2967869 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2967869 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2696316&cid=s_38082_52_f&fid=38082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Ftmpl%3DNoSidebarfile%26db%3DPubMed%26cmd%3DRetrieve%26list_uids%3D19669990%26dopt%3DAbstract Authors: Gardner H PMID: 19669990 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2696316 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2696316