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Final lengthening in Parkinsonian French speech: effects of position in phrase on the duration of CV syllables and speech segments.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 syntact...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Duez D, Legou T, Viallet F Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Phonological development of Kuwaiti Arabic: preliminary data.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Ayyad H, Bernhardt BM Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Lexical-semantic immaturities manifesting as grammatical disorders: evidence from a child language sample.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 mov...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Mok Z, Kipka PF Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Estimating dysphonia severity in continuous speech: application of a multi-parameter spectral/cepstral model.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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. Step...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Awan SN, Roy N, Dromey C Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Is /h/ phonetically neutral?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Robb MP, Chen Y Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Syntax and conversation in aphasia. A strategic restrictive use of Spanish and Catalan connector QUE by aphasic speakers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - October 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Hernández-Sacristán C, Rosell-Clari V Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Stutter-like dysfluencies in Flemish Sign Language users.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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: Clinica...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - October 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Cosyns M, Van Herreweghe A, Christiaens G, Van Borsel J Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Phonological development in children with obstructive sleep-disordered breathing.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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% ...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - October 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lundeborg I, McAllister A, Samuelsson C, Ericsson E, Hultcrantz E Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

A phonation therapy approach for Mandarin-English bilingual clients with dysarthria.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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. ...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - October 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lee T, McCann C Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Applying conversation analysis to interactions with atypically developing children.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19669990 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics)
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - July 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Gardner H Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Using conversation analysis to explore the recurrence of a topic in the talk of a boy with an autism spectrum disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some higher functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are reported to produce perseverative talk, especially around 'special interests'. Topic perseveration is a form of pragmatic impairment captured in Prizant and Rydell's (1993) continuum of unconventional verbal behaviour in autism. Although widely reported, there is little systematic empirical research into this phenomenon. This paper considers the utility of Conversation Analysis in developing knowledge in this area, drawing upon data involving a boy with an ASD interacting with a researcher and a mobile robot platform. Although a frequency ana...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - July 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Stribling P, Rae J, Dickerson P Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

The collaborative construction of non-serious episodes of interaction by non-speaking children with cerebral palsy and their peers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Inequality in communicative resources available to non-speaking children with cerebral palsy in comparison with their 'naturally' speaking co-participants has material consequences for the ways in which face-to-face interaction is organized. Analyses of interaction involving non-speaking children with physical disability and speaking adults has often interpreted the patterns of interaction observed as indicative of non-speaking children's apparent passivity in interaction. Research concerned with these children's interactions with their peers has shown evidence of non-speaking children's active engagement in episodes o...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - July 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Clarke M, Wilkinson R Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Word searches: on the use of verbal and non-verbal resources during classroom talk.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, 8-year-old Ciara is interacting with her teacher in the classroom. Thirty-seven segments containing word searches were analysed according to the procedures used by conversation analysts. Ciara's interactional resources include co-ordinated deployment of syntax, pitch height, and downward gaze during solitary searching that assist the enterprise of self-repair. Gaze shift towards the teacher signals a transition relevance place, thus constituting a direct invitation for her to participate in the search. Ciara's interactional resources include semantic category labelling, phonological self-cuing, and pronomina...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - July 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Radford J Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Interactions between a deaf child for whom English is an additional language and his specialist teacher in the first year at school: Combining words and gestures.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper provides a description of the interactions between a nursery-aged prelingually deaf1 child and his specialist teacher recorded at four consecutive time points during the first year at school. The child comes from a hearing, Somali-speaking family where English is an additional language (EAL). Using Conversation Analysis procedures, findings show how, with the teacher's support, the deaf child accomplishes 'multi-element' turns (that is, turns in which semantic referents are combined using words and gestures-'elements') within and across time points. Gestures remain an essential feature of the child's communi...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - July 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Mahon M Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

The effect of stuttering on communication: A preliminary investigation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper describes a study in which Systemic Functional Linguistics was applied to describe how people who stutter use language. The aim of the study was to determine and describe any differences in language use between a group of 10 adults who stutter and 10 matched normally-fluent speakers. In addition to formal linguistic analyses, analyses drawn from Systemic Functional Linguistics were used to further investigate the expression of both syntactic and semantic complexity. The findings from this study replicated previous findings of Packman et al. in which they found that the language used by people who stutter was...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - June 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Spencer E, Packman A, Onslow M, Ferguson A Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

How do children ascribe gender to nouns? A study of Spanish-speaking children with and without specific language impairment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion of previous research in the area of gender agreement in Spanish-speaking children with SLI and explanations of potential reasons for the children's performance are addressed. PMID: 19585310 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics)
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - June 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Anderson RT, Lockowitz A Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

A comparison between written and spoken narratives in aphasia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of the present study was to explore how a personal narrative told by a group of eight persons with aphasia differed between written and spoken language, and to compare this with findings from 10 participants in a reference group. The stories were analysed through holistic assessments made by 60 participants without experience of aphasia and through measurement of lexical and syntactic variables. The findings showed that the participants with aphasia generally received lower ratings than the reference group, but also that stories written by participants with aphasia were rated as easier to understand, more inter...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - June 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Behrns I, Wengelin A, Broberg M, Hartelius L Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

The production of linguistic prosody in subjects with aphasia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated the production of linguistic prosody in subjects with left hemisphere damage (LHD). Three experiments involving the production of lexical stress in nouns vs verbs, compound nouns vs tag constructions, and echo questions vs statements were conducted. Acoustic measurements (fundamental frequency (F(0)), duration and amplitude) of the prosodic structures were examined and naive listeners were asked to identify the meanings of the utterances. The results of the acoustic measurements indicated that LHD subjects did not produce prosodic structures that were comparable to control subjects to convey differe...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - June 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Walker JP, Joseph L, Goodman J Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

The effects of surgical rapid maxillary expansion (SRME) on vowel formants.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of surgical rapid maxillary expansion (SRME) on vowel production. The subjects included 12 patients, whose speech were considered perceptually normal, that had undergone surgical RME for expansion of a narrow maxilla. They uttered the following Turkish vowels, ([a], [varepsilon], [], [i], [open o], [oe], [u], [y]), in isolation before and after the maxillary expansion. These samples were recorded for acoustical analysis. The fundamental frequencies (F(0)) and the frequencies and bandwidths of the first two formants (F(1) and F(2)) of the vowels were measured using t...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - May 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Sari E, Kilic MA Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Semantic verbal fluency in two contrasting languages.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This cross-linguistic study investigated Semantic Verbal Fluency (SVF) performance in 30 American English-speaking and 30 Finnish-speaking healthy elderly adults with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Despite the different backgrounds of the participant groups, remarkable similarities were found between the groups in the overall SVF performance in two semantic categories (animals and clothes), in the proportions of words produced within the first half (30 seconds) of the SVF tasks, and in the variety of words produced for the categories. These similarities emerged despite the difference in the mean length ...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - May 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Pekkala S, Goral M, Hyun J, Obler LK, Erkinjuntti T, Albert ML Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Development of a test battery for assessing phonological awareness in German-speaking children.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The development of phonological awareness (PA), the ability to reflect on the sound structure of words independent of their meaning, has been extensively explored in English-speaking children. However, this is not the case for other languages. The aim of this study was to develop a comprehensive PA test battery for German-speaking preschool children, considering psycholinguistic, linguistic, and cognitive aspects and to carry out analyses of its psychometric properties. Cross-sectional data from a sample of 55 children (CA 4;0-6;11 years) were collected. Preliminary findings confirm validity and reliability of the test...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - May 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Schaefer B, Fricke S, Szczerbinski M, Fox-Boyer AV, Stackhouse J, Wells B Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

A retrospective study of phonetic inventory complexity in acquisition of Spanish: Implications for phonological universals.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study evaluates 39 different phonetic inventories of 16 Spanish-speaking children (ages 0;11 to 5;1) in terms of hierarchical complexity. Phonetic featural differences are considered in order to evaluate the proposed implicational hierarchy of Dinnsen et al.'s phonetic inventory typology for English. The children's phonetic inventories are examined independently and in relation to one another. Five hierarchical complexity levels are proposed, similar to those of English and other languages, although with some language-specific differences. These findings have implications for theoretical assumptions about the universa...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - May 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Catano L, Barlow JA, Moyna MI Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Effect of listener training on perceptual judgement of hypernasality.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated the effect of practice and feedback on intra-judge and inter-judge reliability of hypernasality judgements. The judges were 36 speech-language therapy students, who were randomly assigned to three groups for training: (1) Exposure (simple exposure to hypernasal speech samples), (2) Practice-only (practice with hypernasality judgements without feedback), and (3) Practice-Feedback (practice with hypernasality judgements with feedback). After training, the judges rated hypernasality in non-nasal sentences produced by 20 speakers with hypernasality and two normal speakers, using direct magnitude estimat...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - April 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lee A, Whitehill TL, Ciocca V Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Hesitation patterns in third grade children's derived word productions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study presents analyses of children's hesitations while producing English derived words with the suffix -ity. Two questions were considered: Do children's linguistic skills influence their use and frequency of hesitations when producing derived words, and do children's use of hesitations vary as a function of word frequency. Eight real words derived with the suffix -ity were produced by 20 third grade children and analysed for different hesitation types. Four of the target words were high in lexical frequency, and four were low in lexical frequency. Results indicated varying hesitation patterns based upon stress accur...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - April 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Edrington JL, Buder EH, Jarmulowicz L Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Acoustic analysis of voice in dysarthria following stroke.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study reports automatic analysis of sustained vowel phonation for 61 speakers with stroke. The results show: (1) men with stroke and healthy elderly men exhibited an identical voice profile, and men with stroke had only one significantly larger noise parameter (SPI--soft phonation index) than young healthy men; and (2) women with stroke and healthy elderly women exhibited an identical voice profile, except that women with stroke exhibited a significantly higher SPI than healthy elderly women. Although there were no significant differences in smoothed pitch perturbation quotient (sPPQ) and SPI between healthy elderly w...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - April 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Wang YT, Kent RD, Kent JF, Duffy JR, Thomas JE Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Comprehension and production of noun compounds by Estonian children with specific language impairment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors examined how 12 Estonian-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 60 children with normal speech development (ND) comprehended compound nouns with differing sequence of the components (first task) and how they produced compound nouns to label genuine and accidental categories by using analogy (second task) and sentence transformation (third task). The results demonstrated that children with SLI were capable of producing compound nouns for genuine categories, but avoided production of compounds to label objects in temporary juxtapositions. However, by comparison with the control group, S...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - April 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Padrik M, Tamtik M Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Characteristics of stuttering in Dutch-speaking individuals.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Clinical diagnostic procedures to distinguish stuttering from non-stuttering individuals partially rely on the observation of characteristics of stuttered words or syllables. The purpose of this study was to examine the sensitivity and specificity of such a procedure, and to describe the observed characteristics of stuttered words. Methods involved the recording of the frequency, duration, and physical tension of stuttered words in conversational speech samples (total 43, 100 words) and in an oral reading task (total 43, 100 words). In this manner, 351 native Dutch speaking people, aged 8-53, who stutter were compared ...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Boey RA, Wuyts FL, Van De Heyning PH, Heylen L, De Bodt MS Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

A linguistic communication measure for monitoring changes in Chinese aphasic narrative production.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated the usefulness of the Cantonese Linguistic Communication Measure (CLCM) in monitoring changes of narrative production in five Chinese adults with aphasia in the period of spontaneous recovery (SR group) and four who underwent anomia therapies (Tx group). Language samples elicited from a picture description task were collected among SR participants at regular intervals within the first 6 months post-onset and among Tx participants before and after treatment. Results showed that the CLCM indices could reflect changes of language production in these individuals over time. The changes of index values we...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Kong AP, Law SP Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Effects of neurological damage on production of formulaic language.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined formulaic language in the spontaneous speech of stroke patients with left, right, or subcortical damage. Four subjects were interviewed and their speech samples compared to normal speakers. Raters classified formulaic expressions as speech formulae, fillers, sentence stems, and proper nouns. Results demonstrated that brain damage affected novel and formulaic language competence differently, with a significantly smaller proportion of formulaic expressions in subjects with right or subcortical damage compared to left hemisphere damaged or healthy speakers. These findings converge with previous studies tha...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Sidtis D, Canterucci G, Katsnelson D Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Text comprehension in Down syndrome: the role of lower and higher level abilities.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The contribution of lower level linguistic abilities (study 1) and a higher level capacity, namely the use of context, (study 2), on text comprehension was studied. Participants were 16 individuals with Down syndrome aged between aged between 8 years 11 months and 16 years 10 months, and 16 children with typical development, aged between 5 years 11 months and 7 years 3 months, matched for the level of text comprehension. In study 1 the two groups were compared for receptive vocabulary and sentence comprehension: both of them were shown to play a role in text comprehension in Down syndrome. Since participants with Down ...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Levorato MC, Roch M, Beltrame R Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Speed and accuracy of rapid speech output by adolescents with residual speech sound errors including rhotics.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Children with residual speech sound errors are often underserved clinically, yet there has been a lack of recent research elucidating the specific deficits in this population. Adolescents aged 10-14 with residual speech sound errors (RE) that included rhotics were compared to normally speaking peers on tasks assessing speed and accuracy of speech production. The two groups were evaluated on an oral diadochokinetic task, which required rapid production of the trisyllable /p Lambda t Lambda k Lambda/, and two rapid naming tasks: monosyllabic letter names and multisyllabic picture names. No significant group differences w...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Preston JL, Edwards ML Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Preface.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19283575 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics)
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Nijland L, Janse E Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Understanding the role of the prefrontal cortex in phonological processing.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lesion studies have demonstrated impairments of specific types of phonological processes. However, results from neuropsychological studies of speech sound processing have been inconclusive as to the role of specific brain regions because of a lack of a one-to-one correspondence between behavioural patterns and lesion location. Functional neuroimaging studies have contributed more detailed information about the involvement of specific brain regions in a wide range of phonological tasks. A framework developed by Hickok and Poeppel to account for these neuropsychological and neuroimaging results is evaluated in light of a...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Burton MW Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Neighbourhood density effects in auditory non-word processing in aphasic listeners.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigates neighbourhood density effects on lexical decision performance (both accuracy and response times) of aphasic patients. Given earlier results on lexical activation and deactivation in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia, the prediction was that smaller neighbourhood density effects would be found for Broca's aphasic patients, compared to age-matched non-brain-damaged control participants, whereas enlarged density effects were expected for Wernicke's aphasic patients. The results showed density effects for all three groups of listeners, and overall differences in performance between groups, but no significa...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Janse E Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

The influence of visual and auditory information on the perception of speech and non-speech oral movements in patients with left hemisphere lesions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined a group of healthy volunteers and a group of patients with lesions of the left hemisphere. Patients made substantially more errors than controls, but the factors influencing imitation accuracy were more or less the same in both groups. Error analyses in both groups suggested different types of representations for speech as compared to the non-speech domain, with speech having a stronger weight on the auditory modality and non-speech processing on the visual modality. Additionally, this study was able to show that the McGurk effect is not limited to speech. PMID: 19283578 [PubMed - in process] (Sourc...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Schmid G, Thielmann A, Ziegler W Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Speech perception in children with speech output disorders.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research in the field of speech production pathology is dominated by describing deficits in output. However, perceptual problems might underlie, precede, or interact with production disorders. The present study hypothesizes that the level of the production disorders is linked to level of perception disorders, thus lower-order production problems (such as childhood apraxia of speech; CAS) are linked to lower-order perception problems and higher-order production problems (phonological disorder; PD) are linked to higher-order perception problems. For this, various perception tasks were administered (non-word auditory disc...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - March 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Nijland L Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Kinematic investigation of lingual movement in words of increasing length in acquired apraxia of speech.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The current study aimed to use electromagnetic articulography (EMA) to investigate the effect of increasing word length on lingual kinematics in acquired apraxia of speech (AOS). Tongue-tip and tongue-back movement was recorded for five speakers with AOS and a concomitant aphasia (mean age = 53.6 years; SD = 12.60) during target consonant production (i.e. /t, s, k/ singletons; /kl, sk/ clusters), for one and two syllable stimuli. The results obtained for each of the participants with AOS were individually compared to those obtained by a control group (n = 12; mean age = 52.08 years; SD = 12.52). Results indicated that ...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - February 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Bartle-Meyer CJ, Goozee JV, Murdoch BE Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Consonant-free words: Evidence from Hebrew speaking children with cochlear implants.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study claims the CFWs characterize a transitional period between babbling and speech, which varies between different types of populations. The transitional period is rather short in typically developing children, who hardly ever produce CFWs, greater in cochlear implant children, and the greatest in developmental speech disorders such as dyspraxia. Clinical implications of these findings are also discussed. PMID: 19197581 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics)
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - February 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Adi-Bensaid L, Tubul-Lavy G Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Prosody as a compensatory strategy in the conversations of people with agrammatism.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Historically, agrammatism, a symptom of Broca's aphasia, has been associated with dysprosody, on account of speakers' slow, halting, and effortful speech. Almost all investigations of this phenomenon use experimental methods (reading, repetition). Thus, little is known about how prosody is used by speakers with agrammatism and understood by their interlocutors in everyday conversations. This paper takes an interactional approach to prosody, using Conversation Analysis to explore everyday conversations between three speakers with agrammatism and their family members/friends, recorded in the home. A distinct prosodic pat...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - February 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Beeke S, Wilkinson R, Maxim J Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Phonological whole-word measures in 3-year-old bilingual children and their age-matched monolingual peers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study investigated phonological whole-word measures and consonant accuracy in bilingual and monolingual children to investigate how target approximations drive phonological acquisition. The study included eight bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking 3-year-olds and their monolingual peers (eight Spanish and eight American English). Phonological whole-word measures (pMLU and Proximity) and consonant accuracy (PCC) were calculated on elicited single words. Differences were found on each measure between bilinguals and monolinguals in English, but in Spanish, only the PCC displayed differences between bilingua...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - February 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Bunta F, Fabiano-Smith L, Goldstein B, Ingram D Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Quality of 'glottal' stops in tracheoesophageal speakers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated how TE speakers realized 'glottal' stops in abutting words that end and begin with the same vowel. Ten phoneticians rated seven TE speakers' attempts to convey 'glottal' stops less favourably than two laryngeal control speakers' 'glottal' stops. Acoustic analyses showed that TE speakers relied on more gradual changes, but in 25% of realizations, a constriction at the neoglottis, similar to the constriction found in normal speakers, was produced. It was concluded that control over the neoglottis might be greater than is generally assumed. It might be possible to improve TE speakers' awareness and con...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - January 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: van Rossum MA, van As-Brooks CJ, Hilgers FJ, Roozen M Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Sentence comprehension in agrammatic aphasia: History and variability to clinical implications.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Individuals with Broca's aphasia often present with deficits in their ability to comprehend non-canonical sentences. This has been contrastingly characterized as a systematic loss of specific grammatical abilities or as individual variability in the dynamics between processing load and resource availability. The present study investigated sentence level comprehension in participants with Broca's aphasia in an attempt to integrate these contrasting views into a clinically useful process. Two participants diagnosed with Broca's aphasia were assessed using a sentence-to-picture matching paradigm and a truth-value judgemen...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - January 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Johnson D, Cannizzaro MS Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Speech skill learning of persons who stutter and fluent speakers under single and dual task conditions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two studies compared the accuracy and efficiency of initiating oral reading of nonsense syllables by persons who stutter (PWS) and fluent speakers (PNS) over practise. Findings of Study One, comparing 12 PWS and 12 PNS, replicated previous findings of slow speech sequence initiation over practise by PWS relative to PNS. In Study Two, nine PWS and eight PNS practised reading syllable sequences under single, and then dual task conditions in which a colour recognition distracter task was introduced. The speech sequences of PWS were initiated significantly slower than those of PNS. Significant GroupxCondition interactions ...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - January 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Smits-Bandstra S, De Nil L Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Normative data on nasalance scores for Swedish as measured on the Nasometer: Influence of dialect, gender, and age.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study was conducted to establish normative nasalance values for Swedish speaking children as measured with the Nasometer(trade mark) II, and to investigate differences due to regional dialect, gender, and age. Two hundred and twenty healthy children aged 4-5, 6-7, and 9-11 years were included. Group mean nasalance scores for four speech stimuli were calculated and compared. There were no significant differences due to dialect or gender for children in the study. For age there was a significant difference on nasal sentences between the youngest group of children and the other two groups, age 4-5 vs age 6-7 (t = -2.844,...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - January 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Brunnegård K, van Doorn J Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Staying on the same wavelength: Talking about talking in paediatric speech and language therapy sessions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Participants in speech and language therapy sessions engage in talk about talking to accomplish different social actions: identifying and explaining linguistic concepts; correcting language use; and repairing misunderstanding. Different traditions in interaction research have examined the practices of topic management, correction, and repair in instructional and mundane conversation, but the need to disentangle the common thread of 'language' that runs through these practices in speech and language therapy interaction has not been recognized. This paper examines three short extracts from transcripts of clinical interac...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - January 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Merrills D Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Fundamental frequency development in typically developing infants and infants with severe-to-profound hearing loss.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Little research has been conducted on the development of suprasegmental characteristics of vocalizations in typically developing infants (TDI) and the role of audition in the development of these characteristics. The purpose of the present study was to examine the longitudinal development of fundamental frequency (F(0)) in eight TDI and eight infants with severe-to-profound hearing loss matched for level of vocal development. Results revealed no significant changes in F(0) with advances in pre-language vocal development for TDI. Infants with hearing loss, however, showed a statistically reliable higher variability of F...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 27, 2008 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Iyer SN, Oller DK Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Methodological questions in studying consonant acquisition.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study also proposes that transcription should be supplemented by acoustic analysis and the perceptual judgements of naive listeners. PMID: 19031192 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics)
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 27, 2008 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Edwards J, Beckman ME Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Effect of bilateral stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on different speech subsystems in patients with Parkinson's disease.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study also notes differences within an individual in the effects of stimulation on the two speech subsystems. These findings qualify the value of global statements about the effect of neurostimulatory operations on Parkinsonian patients. They also underline the importance of careful consideration of individual differences in the effect of deep brain stimulation on different speech subsystems. PMID: 19031193 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics)
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 27, 2008 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Putzer M, Barry WJ, Moringlane JR Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Co-constructed talk in the conversations of people with dysarthria and aphasia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper uses the methodology of conversation analysis (CA) to examine the practice of co-constructed turn and utterance production in impaired communication. An investigation of the conversations between two family dyads, featuring one person with dysarthric speech and one with aphasic language, reveals one way in which single turns and utterances are produced through the collaborative activities of two people in interaction. Such a practice is shown to operate without problems for the participants or the need for explicit acceptance by the speakers. It is proposed that co-construction in disordered speech and langu...
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 27, 2008 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Bloch S, Beeke S Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals

Book review.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 19031195 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics)
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - November 27, 2008 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: journals