Detection of Articulatory Deficits in Parkinson's Disease: Can Systematic Manipulations of Phonetic Complexity Help?

Conclusion Findings suggest that systematic manipulations of phonetic complexity can support the detection of articulatory deficits in talkers with PD. Phonetic complexity should therefore be leveraged for the assessment of articulatory performance in talkers with progressive dysarthria. Future work will be directed toward linking speech kinematic and auditory-perceptual measures to determine the clinical significance of the current findings.
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Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - June 28, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Kuruvilla-Dugdale M, Salazar M, Zhang A, Mefferd AS Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: research