Articulation rate in preschool children: a 3‐year longitudinal study

Abstract

Unique information is provided on the development of speaking rate in preschool children together with additional normative data. The results have both theoretical and clinical implications. The data should assist the clinician in the assessment and diagnosis of rate and in rate modification management. Caution should be exercised in generalizing the results of the study in view of the small sample size and other factors.

Objective measurement of motor speech characteristics in the healthy pediatric population

“…The MSP task for standard syllabic rate is an imitated one, where the subject is instructed to repeat a phrase that is presented in visual and audio format. Similar findings were reported by Walker and Archibald [1] in their study of suprasegmental speech. In their study, articulation assessment was carried out in four speaking contexts -spontaneous, imitated, automatic and repetition.…”

Construct-related validity of the TOCS measures: Comparison of intelligibility and speaking rate scores in children with and without speech disorders

“…The age group means for WPM and IWPM for the children with TDS increased with increasing age with both the 3 and 4 year-olds having significantly lower scores than the 6 year-olds. Walker and Archibald (2006) reported articulation rates in syllables per second for 16 children reported to have typically-developing speech and who were studied longitudinally between 3 and 5 years in several contexts including spontaneous speech and imitated sentences. The authors did not find significant age differences in speaking rate and, like the children in the TDS group in the current study, children had considerable individual differences in rate.…”

Speaking Rate among Adult Hebrew Speakers: A Preliminary Observation

“…Therefore, speech rate is an important and basic temporal characteristic [1]. Speaking rate underpins intelligibility, fluency and communication efficiency and is associated with various speech disorders, such as stuttering, cluttering, dysarthria and dyspraxia [2][3][4].…”