Search Results - "Journal of Speech and Hearing Research"

Toward Tense as a Clinical Marker of Specific Language Impairment in English-Speaking Children by Rice, Mabel L, Wexler, Kenneth

“…Comparison of the speech of 37 preschool children with speech-language impairment (SLI), 40 language-matched children, and 45 age-matched children found that…”
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Specific Language Impairment as a Period of Extended Optional Infinitive by Rice, Mabel L

“…This study evaluated an Extended Optional Infinitive theory of specific language impairment (SLI) in children, which suggests that SLI children omit finiteness…”
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Acoustic correlates of breathy vocal quality: dysphonic voices and continuous speech by Hillenbrand, J, Houde, R A

“…In an earlier study, we evaluated the effectiveness of several acoustic measures in predicting breathiness ratings for sustained vowels spoken by…”
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A System for the Diagnosis of Specific Language Impairment in Kindergarten Children by Tomblin, J. Bruce

“…This article describes the EpiSLI diagnostic system for identifying specific language impairment in kindergarten children for the purpose of epidemiological…”
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Acoustic correlates of breathy vocal quality by Hillenbrand, J, Cleveland, R A, Erickson, R L

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of several acoustic measures in predicting breathiness ratings. Recordings were made of eight…”
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Comparison of two forms of intensive speech treatment for Parkinson disease by Ramig, L O, Countryman, S, Thompson, L L, Horii, Y

“…This study investigated the effect of two forms of intensive speech treatment, (a) respiration (R) and (b) voice and respiration (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment…”
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A system for quantifying the informativeness and efficiency of the connected speech of adults with aphasia by Nicholas, L E, Brookshire, R H

“…A standardized rule-based scoring system, the Correct Information Unit (CIU) analysis, was used to evaluate the informativeness and efficiency of the connected…”
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Phonological Awareness and Literacy Development in Children with Expressive Phonological Impairments by Bird, J

“…Children (ages 5-7, N=31) with expressive phonological impairments were tested on phonological awareness and compared with control children. Children with…”
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Perceptual evaluation of voice quality: review, tutorial, and a framework for future research by Kreiman, J, Gerratt, B R, Kempster, G B, Erman, A, Berke, G S

“…The reliability of listeners' ratings of voice quality is a central issue in voice research because of the clinical primacy of such ratings and because they…”
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The Articulatory Basis of Babbling by Davis, Barbara L, MacNeilage, Peter F

“…This article evaluates the "Frames, then Content" hypothesis for speech acquisition, which sees babbling as a direct result of producing syllabic "frames" by…”
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Interactive Focused Stimulation for Toddlers with Expressive Vocabulary Delays by Girolametto, Luigi

“…This study explored effects of training 25 mothers to administer focused intervention to teach specific target words to their toddlers with expressive…”
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The Relationship between Speech-Language Impairments and Reading Disabilities by Catts, Hugh W

“…Fifty-six children with speech-language impairments were identified in kindergarten and followed in first and second grades. Subjects' performance on…”
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Temporal factors and speech recognition performance in young and elderly listeners by Gordon-Salant, S, Fitzgibbons, P J

“…This study investigated factors that contribute to deficits of elderly listeners in recognizing speech that is degraded by temporal waveform distortion. Young…”
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The influence of speaking rate on vowel space and speech intelligibility for individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by Turner, G S, Tjaden, K, Weismer, G

“…The relationship between speaking rate, vowel space area, and speech intelligibility was studied in a group of 9 subjects with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…”
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Effects of a sour bolus on oropharyngeal swallowing measures in patients with neurogenic dysphagia by Logemann, J A, Pauloski, B R, Colangelo, L, Lazarus, C, Fujiu, M, Kahrilas, P J

“…This study examines the effects of a sour bolus (50% lemon juice, 50% barium liquid) on pharyngeal swallow measures in two groups of patients with neurogenic…”
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Phonological Working Memory and Speech Production in Preschool Children by Adams, Anne-Marie, Gathercole, Susan E

“…This study investigated whether phonological working memory was associated with spoken language development in 38 preschool children. Significant differences…”
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Sentence Comprehension in Children with Specific Language Impairment: The Role of Phonological Working Memory by Montgomery, James W

“…Fourteen children (ages 72-134 months) with specific language impairment (SLI) and 13 with normal language completed a nonsense word repetition task and a…”
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Measuring Children's Lexical Diversity: Differentiating Typical and Impaired Language Learners by Watkins, Ruth V

“…This study evaluated the extent to which measures of lexical diversity (type-token ratio and number of different words produced) differentiated 25 children…”
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Lexical Learning by Children with Specific Language Impairment: Effects of Linguistic Input Presented at Varying Speaking Rates by Weismer, Susan Ellis, Hesketh, Linda J

“…Investigation of the impact of speaking rate variations in the linguistic input provided to 32 school-age children (half with specific language impairment…”
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A Method for Studying the Generalized Slowing Hypothesis in Children with Specific Language Impairment by Kail, Robert

“…Analysis of 22 mean response times (RTs) for children with specific language impairment (SLI) found that SLI children's RTs increased linearly as a function of…”
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