Ataxic dysarthria

Sentence Stress in Ataxic Dysarthria – A Perceptual and Acoustic Study

This study examined how speakers with ataxic dysarthria produce sentence stress and how these findings relate to other measures of speech performance. Ten speakers with ataxia and ten control speakers performed maximum performance, sentence stress, and passage reading tasks. Perceptual analyses established intelligibility levels and accuracy of stress production. Acoustic analyses included F0, ...

Lexical boundary error analysis in hypokinetic and ataxic dysarthria.

This investigation is the second in a series to examine a potential source of reduced intelligibility in dysarthric speech, namely the mismatch between listeners' perceptual strategies and the acoustic information available in the dysarthric speech signal. Lexical boundary error (LBE) analysis was conducted on listener transcripts from phrases produced by speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria, a...

The effects of familiarization on intelligibility and lexical segmentation in hypokinetic and ataxic dysarthria.

This study is the third in a series that has explored the source of intelligibility decrement in dysarthria by jointly considering signal characteristics and the cognitive-perceptual processes employed by listeners. A paradigm of lexical boundary error analysis was used to examine this interface by manipulating listener constraints with a brief familiarization procedure. If familiarization allo...

Title : Phonological markers of sentence stress in ataxic dysarthria and their

Phonological markers of sentence stress in ataxic dysarthria and their relationship to perceptual cues.

UNLABELLED A wide range of literature is available on the features of ataxic dysarthria, investigating segmental and prosodic characteristics by acoustic and perceptual means. However, very few studies have been published that look closely at the relationship between the observed phonetic disturbances and their perceptual sequelae, particularly in the area of prosody. The aim of the current stu...