Impairment of vowel articulation as a possible marker of disease progression in parkinson's disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Skodda, Sabine ^a   Grönheit, Wenke ^a   Schlegel, Uwe ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; SPEECH DISORDER; TRIANGULAR VOWEL SPACE AREA; VOWEL ARTICULATION INDEX; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

PARKINSONIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS;

EID: 84857584424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032132     Document Type: Article

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