Imprecise vowel articulation as a potential early marker of Parkinson's disease: Effect of speaking task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2171-2181

  Rusz, Jan ^a   Cmejla, Roman ^a   Tykalova, Tereza ^a   Ruzickova, Hana ^b   Klempir, Jiri ^b   Majerova, Veronika ^b   Picmausova, Jana ^b   Roth, Jan ^b   Ruzicka, Evzen ^b  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPLEX TASK; HEALTHY CONTROLS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; VOWEL ARTICULATION; VOWEL SPACE;

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SPEECH;

LINGUISTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH SOUND DISORDER; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84883438230     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4816541     Document Type: Article

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