Acoustic and perceptual cues to contrastive stress in dysarthria

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 206-222

  Patel, Rupal ^a   Campellone, Pamela ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Contrastive stress; Dysarthria; Listener perception; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049096326     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/07-0078)     Document Type: Article

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