Influence of verbal and nonverbal contexts on the sentence intelligibility of a speaker with dysarthria

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 750-760

  Garcia, Jane Mertz ^a,c   Cannito, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Dysarthria; Gestures; Intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSARTHRIA; GESTURE; HUMAN; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULATION; TAPE RECORDER; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029780684     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3904.750     Document Type: Article

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