ArticleClinical linguistics & phonetics2019
Tongue shapes for rhotics in school-age children with and without residual speech errors.
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Correcting Residual Errors With Spectral, Ultrasound, and Traditional Speech Therapy: Delineation of Sensorimotor Subtypes
Correcting Residual Errors With Spectral, Ultrasound, and Traditional Speech Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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- An Articulatory Analysis of American English Rhotics in Children With and Without a History of Residual Speech Sound Disorder.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Assessing ultrasound probe stabilization for quantifying speech production contrasts using the Adjustable Laboratory Probe Holder for UltraSound (ALPHUS).Journal of phonetics · 2024Article
- Tongue Shape Complexity in Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Classification of accurate and misarticulated /Clinical linguistics & phonetics · 2023Article
- Extending Ultrasound Tongue Shape Complexity Measures to Speech Development and Disorders.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021Article
- Neuroimaging of the Syllable Repetition Task in Children With Residual Speech Sound Disorder.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021Article
- Tutorial: Motor-Based Treatment Strategies for /r/ Distortions.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2020Review
- Characterizing sensorimotor profiles in children with residual speech sound disorder: a pilot study.Journal of communication disordersArticle
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Abstract
Speakers of North American English use variable tongue shapes for rhotic sounds. However, quantifying tongue shapes for rhotics can be challenging, and little is known about how tongue shape complexity corresponds to perceptual ratings of rhotic accuracy in children with residual speech sound errors (RSE). In this study, 16 children aged 9-16 with RSE and 14 children with typical speech (TS) development made multiple productions of 'Let Robby cross Church Street'. Midsagittal ultrasound images were collected once for children with TS and twice for children in the RSE group (once after 7 h of speech therapy, then again after another 7 h of therapy). Tongue contours for the rhotics in the four words were traced and quantified using a new metric of tongue shape complexity: the number of inflections. Rhotics were also scored for accuracy by four listeners. During the first assessment, children with RSE had fewer tongue inflections than children with TS. Following 7 h of therapy, there were increases in the number of inflections for the RSE group, with the cluster items cross and Street reaching tongue complexity levels of those with TS. Ratings of rhotic accuracy were correlated with the number of inflections. Therefore, the number of inflections in the tongue, an index of tongue shape complexity, was associated with perceived accuracy of rhotic productions.
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