The goal of this study was to determine if notably reduced intelligibility is a potential diagnostic marker for children with speech delay and histories of early recurrent otitis media with effusion (SD-OME). Intelligibility was assessed in one 5-10 minute conversational speech sample from each of 281 speakers. The OME histories of 148 of these children with normal speech acquisition were descr...

In general, speech synthesis using the source-filter model of speech production requires the classification of speech into two classes (voiced and unvoiced) which is prone to errors. For voiced speech, the input of the synthesis filter is an approximately periodic excitation, whereas it is a noise signal for unvoiced. This paper proposes an excitation model which can be used to synthesise both ...

We present a new technique for studying the activation of semantic and phonological codes in speech planning using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) that extend a well-established behavioral procedure from speech production research. It combines a delayed picture-naming task with a priming procedure. While participants prepared the production of a depicted object's name, they heard an audit...

The single word speech shadowing task typically produces spontaneous imitation of the speech of the shadowed talker (the model). This task has been used as a tool for examining speech convergence in a non-social setting and has provided data for claims that the mental lexicon is constituted from instance-based exemplars. We examined whether the speech of participants who shadowed or explicitly ...

Neologism and private usage of stock words have long been considered as uncommon disorders of schizophrenic thought and speech.however,,a review of current literature and psychiatric textbooks reveals few clinical examples.in this article a paranoid  schizophrenic patient with extensive speech disorder has been presented and his neologistic production,private meaning of stoch words and other sp...

Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) regarding speech can cause dysfluency. The purpose of this study was to explore whether providing visual feedback in addition to DAF would ameliorate speech disruption. Speakers repeated sentences and heard their auditory feedback delayed with and without simultaneous visual feedback. DAF led to increased sentence durations and an increased number of speech disru...

BACKGROUND Language development is one of the most significant processes of early childhood development. Children with delayed speech development are more at risk of acquiring other cognitive, social-emotional, and school-related problems. Music therapy appears to facilitate speech development in children, even within a short period of time. The aim of this pilot study is to explore the effects...