Acoustic Characteristics of the Question-Statement Contrast in Severe Dysarthria Due to Cerebral Palsy

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1401-1415

  Patel, Rupal ^a,b,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c #102 Forysth Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Cerebral palsy; Dysarthria; Fundamental frequency; Intonation; Loudness; Pitch; Prosody; Question statement; Syllable duration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOUDNESS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PREDICTION; QUESTION STATEMENT CONTRAST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL PALSY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0347586935     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/109)     Document Type: Article

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