Lognormal distribution of pause length in ataxic dysarthria

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 469-486

  Rosen, Kristin M ^a   Kent, Raymond D ^b   Duffy, Joseph R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Ataxic dysarthria; Lognormal distribution; Pause; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ATAXIA; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATAXIA; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS;

EID: 0141894118     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269920031000105345     Document Type: Review

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