Background: Despite advances in technology and the universal accessibility of the Internet, the aptly named digital divide- still prevents equal access to, and use of, computer technology by people with aphasia. The use ...

Preaspiration is usually associated with stops rather than fricatives, both at phonological and phonetic levels of description. This study reports the occurrence of phonetic (nonnormative)preaspiration of voiceless fricatives ...

This study compared tongue palate contact patterns for oral stops (/t/, /d/) with those for the nasal stop /n/ in order to provide normative data for diagnosing and treating individuals with speech disorders. Electropalatographic ...

This article reports on an acoustic study of voicing in obstruents followed by a sonorant across a word boundary in two dialects of Dutch: East- and West- Flemish. In both varieties only gradient phonetic voicing was ...

This chapter considers why young children's speech segments are often perceived by adults as geminates in light of two studies on the perception of phonological quantity in Finnish and Japanese. Study 1 used stimulus ...

Patterns of coarticulation between onset and rime in the speech of six Scottish English speaking children aged 4 years is examined in the words dye /dai/ and sty /stai/. F2 is 272Hz lower at the burst following /st/ than ...

Published Abstract - Many people with aphasia retain residual language impairments to varying degrees of severity following rehabilitation. Currently there is no theory of rehabilitation that explains the therapeutic ...

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Life-Cycle Changes in the Vocal Apparatus Interpersonal Variation Variation Resulting from Trauma or Disease Conclusion References