Full Description
The Phonetics of Dysarthria provides a broad overview of dysarthria, as well as coverage of three distinct studies of the phonetic features and phonological implications of the speech disorder. The large scope of the book ensures that clinical practitioners, linguists, speech scientists, and advanced undergraduate or graduate students alike can find new insights into dysarthria. The first chapters cover the effects of dysarthria in Greek through the acoustic and perceptual investigation of the realization of lexical stress. Prosodic characteristics of a variety of dysarthric speech, including speech in highly controlled and spontaneous conditions, are investigated in relationship to perceived speech naturalness in American English as well. The last chapters use the framework of interactional phonetics to look at conversational repair and the phonetics of self-repair in individuals with dysarthria. The studies in this volume contribute a distinctive approach to the subject by using impressionistic, acoustic segmental, and suprasegmental analyses to investigate this wide variety of aspects to the motor speech disorder. The cross-linguistic phonetic data included also provides a novel contribution to the literature on dysarthria.
Contents
Foreword
Preliminaries
1. Introduction to Dysarthria
Part 1 Acoustic and Perceptual Effects of Dysarthria in Greek
2. Stress in Greek
3. The Study: Data Collection Methods and Analysis
4. Results of Lexical Stress Analysis
5. Results of Other Acoustic Measures
6. Discussion of Acoustic and Perceptual Study
Part 2 Prosodic Features and Speech Naturalness
7. Speech Naturalness
8. Prosodic Characteristics of Hypokinetic Dysarthria
9. Naturalness Judgments
10. Results Combined
11. Discussion of Speech Naturalness Study
Part 3 Conversational Speech in Dysarthria
12. Conversational Speech and Dysarthria
13. Repair in Conversation
14. Interactional Phonetics
15. The Phonetics of Self Repair in Dysarthria
16. Summary
Envoi
17. Conclusion
