Lingual kinematic strategies used to increase speech rate: Comparison between younger and older adults

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 319-334

  Goozée, Justine V ^a   Stephenson, Dayna K ^a   Murdoch, Bruce E ^a   Darnell, Ross E ^a   Lapointe, Leonard L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Electromagnetic articulography (EMA); Lingual dynamics; Speech motor control; Speech rate

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINEMATICS; MONITORING; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TONGUE; VELOCITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TONGUE;

EID: 21044447616     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200420002268862     Document Type: Article

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