Table of contents
Introductionvii
Contributorsxiii
Part 1 - Methodology
1. Developments in the theoretical understanding of speech and its disorders1
2. Current developments in instrumentation for studying supraglottal structures27
3. Current developments in transcription51
4. Perceptual and Acoustic methods in the evaluation of dysarthric speech91
Part 2 - Case Studies
5. Types of deviant sibilant production in a group of school-aged children, and their response to treatment using EPG115
6. An unusual pattern of speech production in a child with acquired epileptic aphasia151
7. The clinical assessment of Finnish fluency171
8. Acoustic analysis as an aid to the transcription of an example of disfluent speech197
9. Cepstra of normal and pathological voices in correlation to acoustical, aerodynamic and perceptual data217
10. Effects of age and smoking on the female voice227
11. Isovowel lines for the evaluation of foreign accent difficulties237
Index249
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