Clear Speech Variants: An Acoustic Study in Parkinson's Disease

Autor/inn/en	Lam, Jennifer; Tjaden, Kris
Titel	Clear Speech Variants: An Acoustic Study in Parkinson's Disease
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59 (2016) 4, S.631-646 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Neurological Impairments; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Speech Communication; Acoustics; Suprasegmentals; Sentences; Stimuli; Vowels; Articulation (Speech); Hearing Impairments; Speech Impairments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Akustik; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Anreizsystem; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Speech impairment; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Language handicps; Language impairments; Sprachbehinderung
Abstract	Purpose: The authors investigated how different variants of clear speech affect segmental and suprasegmental acoustic measures of speech in speakers with Parkinson's disease and a healthy control group. Method: A total of 14 participants with Parkinson's disease and 14 control participants served as speakers. Each speaker produced 18 different sentences selected from the Sentence Intelligibility Test (Yorkston & Beukelman, 1996). All speakers produced stimuli in 4 speaking conditions (habitual, clear, overenunciate, and hearing impaired). Segmental acoustic measures included vowel space area and first moment (M1) coefficient difference measures for consonant pairs. Second formant slope of diphthongs and measures of vowel and fricative durations were also obtained. Suprasegmental measures included fundamental frequency, sound pressure level, and articulation rate. Results: For the majority of adjustments, all variants of clear speech instruction differed from the habitual condition. The overenunciate condition elicited the greatest magnitude of change for segmental measures (vowel space area, vowel durations) and the slowest articulation rates. The hearing impaired condition elicited the greatest fricative durations and suprasegmental adjustments (fundamental frequency, sound pressure level). Conclusions: Findings have implications for a model of speech production for healthy speakers as well as for speakers with dysarthria. Findings also suggest that particular clear speech instructions may target distinct speech subsystems. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01