BACKGROUND: dysarthrias are commonly found in patients with spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA). AIM: to characterize perceptual and acoustic features of speech in three patients with spinocerebellar ataxia and to verify the ...

The phonoarticulatory diadochokinesis test has been recommended to evaluate neurological disorders. It is a speech task that consists of the ability to repeat at high speed a segment of speech. The purpose of this research ...

A caracterização típica das disartrias, combinada pelos dados perceptivos e acústicos, oferece melhor informação quanto às habilidades neuromotoras da fala e a efetividade comunicativa e pode ser complementada com dados ...

PURPOSE: To characterize the occurrence of plosive sounds' devoicing in the speech of dysphonic children. METHODS: Fifty children with ages between four and eight years old (40 dysphonic and ten without any vocal disorders) ...

This paper is an outline of how intonation has been analyzed and described by phonologists and phoneticians within the framework of modern linguistics. Intonation is a prosodic reality that is concerned directly with the ...

BACKGROUND: contextual cues intrinsic to speech stimuli can have an influence on speech intelligibility measurements; however, the influence of cues that depend on the acoustic signal, such as speech rate and vocal loudness, ...