Toward an acoustic typology of motor speech disorders

Acoustic methods have progressed to the point that an acoustic typology of the motor speech disorders can be constructed from a parametric assessment of the speech subsystems (e.g., phonation, nasal resonance, vowel articulation, consonant articulation, intonation, and rhythm). The results of this a...

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Published in:Clinical linguistics & phonetics 2003-09, Vol.17 (6), p.427-445
Main Authors: Kent, Ray D., Kim, Y.-J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
acoustic analysis
Humans
intelligibility
Linguistic effects of deficiencies
Linguistics
motor speech disorders
Pathology of language
Phonation
prosody
Speech Acoustics
Speech Disorders - diagnosis
Speech Disorders - etiology
Speech Intelligibility
Voice Quality
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Summary:Acoustic methods have progressed to the point that an acoustic typology of the motor speech disorders can be constructed from a parametric assessment of the speech subsystems (e.g., phonation, nasal resonance, vowel articulation, consonant articulation, intonation, and rhythm). The results of this analysis can be interpreted in respect to global functions in speech (e.g., voice quality, intelligibility, and prosody). This paper reviews studies showing that specific acoustic analyses have demonstrated or potential value toward the overall goal of constructing acoustic profiles of dysarthria and apraxia of speech. Several different acoustic measures are relevant to the study of the motor speech disorders, and these are increasingly supported by normative data and by guidelines for clinical application. Examples of these applications are discussed for a variety of specific neurologic diseases or perceptual types of disorder. Acoustic studies are useful in the study of motor speech disorders and recent progress points to a parametric analysis.
ISSN:0269-9206
1464-5076
DOI:10.1080/0269920031000086248