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Coarticulation patterns in children with developmental apraxia of speech. 2002

Lian Nijland, and Ben Maassen, and Sjoeke Van der Meulen, and Fons Gabreels, and Floris W Kraaimaat, and Rob Schreuder
Dept. of Paediatric Neurology/Medical Psychology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands. l.nijland@cukz.umcn.nl

The aim of this study was to enhance our insight into the underlying deficit in developmental apraxia of speech (DAS). In particular, the involvement of planning and/or programming of speech movements in context was tested by analysing coarticulatory cohesion. For this purpose, second formant frequency measurements were conducted in repetitions of nonsense utterances ([[symbol: see text]] C = /s,x,b,d/; V = /i.a.u/), and compared across nine children with DAS, six normally speaking (NS) children and six adult women. The results showed both intra- and intersyllabic anticipatory coarticulation in NS children and adult women, in which the intersyllabic coarticulation was stronger in NS children than in adult women. The children with DAS showed more variability as compared to NS children, made, on average, less distinction between the vowels, and showed individually idiosyncratic coarticulation patterns. These results are discussed in the light of a delay as well as a deviance of speech development in children with DAS.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D010700 Phonetics The science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed) Speech Sounds,Sound, Speech,Sounds, Speech,Speech Sound
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001072 Apraxias A group of cognitive disorders characterized by the inability to perform previously learned skills that cannot be attributed to deficits of motor or sensory function. The two major subtypes of this condition are ideomotor (see APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR) and ideational apraxia, which refers to loss of the ability to mentally formulate the processes involved with performing an action. For example, dressing apraxia may result from an inability to mentally formulate the act of placing clothes on the body. Apraxias are generally associated with lesions of the dominant PARIETAL LOBE and supramarginal gyrus. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp56-7) Dressing Apraxia,Dyspraxia,Ideational Apraxia,Apraxia,Apraxia of Phonation,Apraxia, Articulatory,Apraxia, Developmental Verbal,Apraxia, Facial-Oral,Apraxia, Gestural,Apraxia, Motor,Apraxia, Oral,Apraxia, Verbal,Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia,Dyspraxia, Articulatory,Dyspraxia, Oral,Dyspraxia, Verbal,Speech And Language Disorder With Orofacial Dyspraxia,Speech-Language Disorder 1,1s, Speech-Language Disorder,Apraxia, Dressing,Apraxia, Facial Oral,Apraxia, Ideational,Apraxias, Articulatory,Apraxias, Developmental Verbal,Apraxias, Dressing,Apraxias, Facial-Oral,Apraxias, Gestural,Apraxias, Ideational,Apraxias, Motor,Apraxias, Oral,Apraxias, Verbal,Articulatory Apraxia,Articulatory Apraxias,Articulatory Dyspraxia,Articulatory Dyspraxias,Developmental Verbal Apraxia,Developmental Verbal Apraxias,Developmental Verbal Dyspraxias,Disorder 1, Speech-Language,Disorder 1s, Speech-Language,Dressing Apraxias,Dyspraxia, Developmental Verbal,Dyspraxias,Dyspraxias, Articulatory,Dyspraxias, Developmental Verbal,Dyspraxias, Oral,Dyspraxias, Verbal,Facial-Oral Apraxia,Facial-Oral Apraxias,Gestural Apraxia,Gestural Apraxias,Ideational Apraxias,Motor Apraxia,Motor Apraxias,Oral Apraxia,Oral Apraxias,Oral Dyspraxia,Oral Dyspraxias,Phonation Apraxia,Phonation Apraxias,Speech Language Disorder 1,Speech-Language Disorder 1s,Verbal Apraxia,Verbal Apraxia, Developmental,Verbal Apraxias,Verbal Apraxias, Developmental,Verbal Dyspraxia,Verbal Dyspraxia, Developmental,Verbal Dyspraxias,Verbal Dyspraxias, Developmental
D012720 Severity of Illness Index Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder. Illness Index Severities,Illness Index Severity
D013061 Speech Acoustics The acoustic aspects of speech in terms of frequency, intensity, and time. Acoustics, Speech,Acoustic, Speech,Speech Acoustic

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