Speech Fluency: Effect of Age, Gender and Context

Leeper, Linda H.; Culatta, Richard

doi:10.1159/000266337

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“…Interjudge reliability ranged from .93-.98. Both the intra-and the interjudge agreement values were comparable to those reported in previous research involving non-stuttering speakers (e.g., Yairi & Clifton, 1972;Manning & Monte, 1981;Duchin & Mysak, 1987, Leeper & Culatta, 1995Searl, Gabel, & Fulks, 2002).…”

Section: Reliability Measuressupporting

confidence: 86%

Fluency variation in adolescents

Andrade

Martins

2007

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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The Speech Fluency Profile of fluent adolescent speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, were examined with respect to gender and neurolinguistic variations. Speech samples of 130 male and female adolescents, aged between 12;0 and 17;11 years were gathered. They were analysed according to type of speech disruption; speech rate; and frequency of speech disruptions. Statistical analysis did not find significant differences between genders for the variables studied. However, regarding the phases of adolescence (early: 12;0-14;11 years; late: 15;0-17;11 years), statistical differences were observed for all of the variables. As for neurolinguistic maturation, a decrease in the number of speech disruptions and an increase in speech rate occurred during the final phase of adolescence, indicating that the maturation of the motor and linguistic processes exerted an influence over the fluency profile of speech.

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Section: Reliability Measuressupporting

confidence: 86%

Fluency variation in adolescents

Andrade

Martins

2007

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…similarly aged (65-74 years) and older (75-84 and 85þ) control participants (Leeper & Culatta, 1995). Examining individual participant data, a majority of the current participants with PD (53%) had withinword disfluency levels above 3%, with six participants (19%) exhibiting more than 6% within-word disfluency.…”

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confidence: 87%

Characteristics of speech disfluency in Parkinson disease

Goberman

Blomgren²,

Metzger³

2010

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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“…In fact, aging can also lead to greater typical dysfluencies in the speech of healthy subjects 11,26 . while atypical dysfluencies are less frequently observed.…”

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Fluency in Parkinson’s disease: disease duration, cognitive status and age

Brabo

Minett

Ortiz

2014

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of occurrence and to characterize the typology of dysfluencies in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), including the variables age, gender, schooling, disease duration, score on the Hoehn and Yahr scale and cognitive status (score on Mini-Mental State Examination). A cross-sectional study of a sample comprising 60 adults matched for gender, age and schooling was conducted. Group I comprised 30 adults with idiopathic PD, and Group II comprised 30 healthy adults. For assessment of fluency of speech, subjects were asked to utter a narrative based on a sequence of drawings and a transcription of 200 fluent syllables was performed to identify speech dysfluencies. PD patients exhibited a higher overall number of dysfluencies in speech with a large number of atypical dysfluencies. Additionally, results showed an influence of the variables cognitive status, disease duration and age on occurrence of dysfluencies.Keywords: Parkinson's disease, cognition, speech.RESUMO O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a frequência de ocorrência e caracterizar a tipologia das disfluências em indivíduos com doença de Parkison (DP), controlando-se as variáveis, idade, sexo, escolaridade, tempo de doença, escore na escala de Hoehn e Yahr e status cognitivo (escore no Exame do Minimental). Realizamos um estudo transversal com amostra composta por 60 adultos pareados por sexo, idade e escolaridade. O grupo I foi formado por 30 adultos com DP idiopática, e o grupo II por 30 adultos sadios. Para a avaliação da fluência da fala foi solicitada a emissão de uma narrativa a partir de uma sequência de figuras e realizada a trascrição de 200 sílabas para verificação das disfluências de fala. Os pacientes com DP apresentaram um número maior de disfluências na fala com um grande número de disfluências atípicas e, adicionalmente, observamos que houve interferência das variáveis status cognitivo, tempo de doença e idade na ocorrência das disfluências.Palavras-chave: doença de Parkinson, cognição, fala.

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Speech Fluency: Effect of Age, Gender and Context

Cited by 25 publications

References 13 publications

Fluency variation in adolescents

Fluency variation in adolescents

Characteristics of speech disfluency in Parkinson disease

Fluency in Parkinson’s disease: disease duration, cognitive status and age

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