Developmental changes in the effects of utterance length and complexity on speech movement variability

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1138-1151

  Sadagopan, Neeraja ^a,b   Smith, Anne ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Speech kinematics; Speech motor control; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; LIP READING; LOWER LIP; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RATE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LIP; MALE; MOVEMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 52949138987     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/06-0222)     Document Type: Article

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