Fricative Contrast and Coarticulation in Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders.
Fricative Contrast and Coarticulation in Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders.
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有和没有言语障碍的儿童的摩擦音对比和协同发音。
DOI:
10.1044/2017_ajslp-16-0110
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Mailend,Marja-Liisa
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作者:
Maas,Edwin;Mailend,Marja-Liisa
PurposeThe purpose of this study was, first, to expand our understanding of typical speech development regarding segmental contrast and anticipatory coarticulation, and second, to explore the potential diagnostic utility of acoustic measures of fricative contrast and anticipatory coarticulation in children with speech sound disorders (SSD).MethodIn a cross-sectional design, 10 adults, 17 typically developing children, and 11 children with SSD repeated carrier phrases with novel words with fricatives (/s/, /ʃ/). Dependent measures were 2 ratios derived from spectral mean, obtained from perceptually accurate tokens. Group analyses compared adults and typically developing children; individual children with SSD were compared to their respective typically developing peers.ResultsTypically developing children demonstrated smaller fricative acoustic contrast than adults but similar coarticulatory patterns. Three children with SSD showed smaller fricative acoustic contrast than their typically developing peers, and 2 children showed abnormal coarticulation. The 2 children with abnormal coarticulation both had a clinical diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech; no clear pattern was evident regarding SSD subtype for smaller fricative contrast.ConclusionsChildren have not reached adult-like speech motor control for fricative production by age 10 even when fricatives are perceptually accurate. Present findings also suggest that abnormal coarticulation but not reduced fricative contrast is SSD-subtype–specific.Supplemental MaterialsS1: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5103070. S2 and S3: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5106508