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On Disorders of Articulate Speech [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1940
The-aim of this paper is to show why some people, born and brought up in the same environment as ourselves, may yet develop a special form of speech, such as lisping or one of the allied disorders. For our purpose it is, I think, advisable to look first at the way in which Nature has developed articulation. The word " articulation " is of Latin origin ;
openaire   +2 more sources

A Cognitive-Perceptual Approach to Conceptualizing Speech Intelligibility Deficits and Remediation Practice in Hypokinetic Dysarthria

open access: yesParkinson's Disease, 2011
Hypokinetic dysarthria is a common manifestation of Parkinson's disease, which negatively influences quality of life. Behavioral techniques that aim to improve speech intelligibility constitute the bulk of intervention strategies for this population, as ...
Kaitlin L. Lansford   +3 more
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The evaluation of swallowing in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia and oropharyngeal dysphagia: A comparison study of videofluoroscopic and sonar doppler

open access: yesInternational Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2013
Sumarry Introduction: Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) is a degenerative disease that can cause loss of coordination of voluntary muscle movement such as that required for swallowing.
Edna Márcia da Silva Abdulmassih   +2 more
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Analysis of speech prosody using WaveNet embeddings : The Lombard effect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
We present a novel methodology for speech prosody research based on the analysis of embeddings used to condition a convolutional WaveNet speech synthesis system.
Juraj Šimko   +5 more
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Pre-Stimulus Head Position and Its Effect on Sound Localization Metrics in Children

open access: yesAudiology Research
Background: This study investigates the impact of initial head position prior to stimulus presentation on sound localization accuracy in children. The quadratic angular root mean square error (RMSE) and the linear mean-absolute-error (MAE) have been ...
Elisabeth Zangerl   +4 more
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Prosodic Prominence and Boundaries in Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Recent advances in deep learning methods have elevated synthetic speech quality to human level, and the field is now moving towards addressing prosodic variation in synthetic speech.Despite successes in this effort, the state-of-the-art systems fall ...
Juraj Šimko   +7 more
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Practical options for articulatory feedback in the speech clinic

open access: yes, 2023
James M. Scobbie - ORCID: 0000-0003-4509-6782 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4509-6782https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Children%27s+Speech+Sound+Disorders%2C+3rd+Edition-p ...
Scobbie, James M., Cleland, Joanne
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The Relationship between the Etiology of Profound Prelingual Sensorineural Hearing Loss and the Results of Vestibular-Evoked Myogenic Potentials

open access: yesInternational Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2019
Introduction Cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) are biphasic, short latency potentials, which represent the inhibition of the contraction of the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) mediated by the saccule, the inferior vestibular nerve,
Alice Andrade Takeuti   +3 more
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How To Get Started With Ultrasound Technology for Treatment of Speech Sound Disorders

open access: yes, 2015
Although providing visual feedback with ultrasound is becoming more and more popular among speech-language pathologists, it is still not widely used, perhaps because many speech-language pathologists are unfamiliar with its application to treatment of ...
Sancibrian, Sherry   +6 more
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Defining Nodes and Edges in Other Languages in Cognitive Network Science—Moving beyond Single-Layer Networks

open access: yesInformation
Cognitive network science has increased our understanding of how the mental lexicon is structured and how that structure at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels influences language and cognitive processes. Most of the research using this approach has used
Michael S. Vitevitch   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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