Objective measurement of motor speech characteristics in the healthy pediatric population

Wong, Anthony; Allegro, Jennifer; Tirado, Yamilet; Chadha, Neil K.; Campisi, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2011.09.023

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“…19 Because sex was not a significant predictor for any of the 8 MSP parameters, 19 we combined the data across sexes for regression analyses.…”

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“…The MSP was used to provide a noninvasive, reproducible, and objective measure of motor speech in the present study and in the previously published normative study. 19 Children were asked to complete a set of programprescribed tasks that were then used to assess different voice and speech parameters ( Table 1): diadochokinetic (DDK) rate, second formant transitions, intonation patterns, and syllabic rates. The DDK rate was measured during repetition of singlesyllable and multisyllabic stimuli (eg, /pa/ and /pataka/).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Details of materials, equipment, and methodology used to acquire the data have been previously reported. 19 The normative values from this earlier study constitute our historical control group.…”

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Normal-like Motor Speech Parameters Measured in Children With Long-term Cochlear Implant Experience Using a Novel Objective Analytic Technique

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“…19 Because sex was not a significant predictor for any of the 8 MSP parameters, 19 we combined the data across sexes for regression analyses.…”

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Normal-like Motor Speech Parameters Measured in Children With Long-term Cochlear Implant Experience Using a Novel Objective Analytic Technique

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Tirado

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“…Furthermore, there are only a few objective instruments for mapping children's motor speech skills and there is no norm referenced assessment based on a large data set. This is a major problem, as a good understanding of normal speech is necessary for the interpretation of MSDs [6]. Finally, the existing assessments may be hard for children to complete and it also demands a lot of the SLP's judgment ability.…”

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A Standardized Protocol for Maximum Repetition Rate Assessment in Children

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Haaften

Terband

et al. 2019

Folia Phoniatr Logop

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Background/Aims: Maximum repetition rate (MRR) is often used in the assessment of speech motor performance in older children and adults. The present study aimed to evaluate a standardized protocol for MRR assessment in young children in Dutch. Methods: The sample included 1,524 children of 2-7 years old with no hearing difficulties and Dutch spoken in their nursery or primary school and was representative for children in the Netherlands. The MRR protocol featured mono-, tri-, and bisyllabic sequences and was computer-implemented to maximize standardization. Results: Less than 50% of the 2-year-olds could produce > 1 monosyllabic sequence correctly. Children who could not correctly produce ≥2 monosyllabic sequences could not produce any of the multisyllabic sequences. The effect of instruction ("faster" and "as fast as possible") was small, and multiple attempts yielded a faster MRR in only 20% of the cases. MRRs did not show clinically relevant differences when calculated over different numbers of repeated syllables. Conclusions: The MRR protocol is suitable for children of 3 years and older. If children cannot produce at least 2 of the monosyllabic sequences , the multisyllabic tasks should be omitted. Furthermore, all fast attempts of each sequence should be analyzed to determine the fastest MRR.

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“…Evidence for the existence of common perceptual mechanisms for both, come from several different lines of research, including psychoacoustic, electroencephalography, and imaging studies. Linguistic studies that have focused on syllabic rates across different languages including Greek, reveal periodicities around 3–5 Hz (200–333 ms; Baltazani, 2007; Tilsen and Johnson, 2008; Wong et al, 2011; Tilsen and Arvaniti, 2013). Studies on the acoustics of speech have found that the dominant component of the amplitude envelope is found in temporal modulations around the same frequency, i.e., in the range of 4–8 Hz (Chi et al, 1999; Chandrasekaran et al, 2009; Elliott and Theunissen, 2009).…”

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Spoken Word Recognition Enhancement Due to Preceding Synchronized Beats Compared to Unsynchronized or Unrhythmic Beats

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The relation between rhythm and language has been investigated over the last decades, with evidence that these share overlapping perceptual mechanisms emerging from several different strands of research. The dynamic Attention Theory posits that neural entrainment to musical rhythm results in synchronized oscillations in attention, enhancing perception of other events occurring at the same rate. In this study, this prediction was tested in 10 year-old children by means of a psychoacoustic speech recognition in babble paradigm. It was hypothesized that rhythm effects evoked via a short isochronous sequence of beats would provide optimal word recognition in babble when beats and word are in sync. We compared speech recognition in babble performance in the presence of isochronous and in sync vs. non-isochronous or out of sync sequence of beats. Results showed that (a) word recognition was the best when rhythm and word were in sync, and (b) the effect was not uniform across syllables and gender of subjects. Our results suggest that pure tone beats affect speech recognition at early levels of sensory or phonemic processing.

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Objective measurement of motor speech characteristics in the healthy pediatric population

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

Normal-like Motor Speech Parameters Measured in Children With Long-term Cochlear Implant Experience Using a Novel Objective Analytic Technique

Normal-like Motor Speech Parameters Measured in Children With Long-term Cochlear Implant Experience Using a Novel Objective Analytic Technique

A Standardized Protocol for Maximum Repetition Rate Assessment in Children

Spoken Word Recognition Enhancement Due to Preceding Synchronized Beats Compared to Unsynchronized or Unrhythmic Beats

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