Clinical research with the prosody-voice screening profile

The Prosody-Voice Screening Profile (PVSP) is a clinical research instrument that quantifies a speaker's conversational speech status in seven suprasegmental domains: phrasing, rate, stress, loudness, pitch, laryngeal quality and resonance. The PVSP has been used to assess the prosody-voice cha...

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Published in:Clinical linguistics & phonetics 2001, Vol.15 (7), p.505-528
Main Authors: McSweeny, Jane L, Shriberg, Lawrence D
Format: Article
Language:English
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Assessment Measurement Prosody Speech Disorders Suprasegmental
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Summary:The Prosody-Voice Screening Profile (PVSP) is a clinical research instrument that quantifies a speaker's conversational speech status in seven suprasegmental domains: phrasing, rate, stress, loudness, pitch, laryngeal quality and resonance. The PVSP has been used to assess the prosody-voice characteristics of children and adult speakers with typical speech-language development and with a variety of speech-language disorders of known and unknown origin. PVSP coding requires a trained examiner to determine, on an utterance-by-utterance basis within each of the seven domains, whether a speaker's prosody-voice characteristics can be defined as appropriate based on a set of auditory-perceptual criteria. This report provides brief overviews of the development, administration, and psychometric features of this screening tool, and summarizes prosody-voice findings to date for several typically speaking and clinical populations.
ISSN:0269-9206
1464-5076
DOI:10.1080/02699200110078159