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Speech Production Errors in Children With Cleft Palate With or Without Cleft Lip. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Kari M Lien,Nancy J Scherer,Kelly Nett Cordero,Thomas J Sitzman
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe the frequency of speech production errors in children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CP±L) and explore characteristics related to speech production errors. METHOD Fifty-six children with nonsyndromic CP±L between the ages of 4;0 and 7;11 (years;months) were included in this study. The children's audio-recorded production of a sentence
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The Roles of Vowel Fronting, Lengthening, and Listener Variables in the Perception of Vocal Femininity. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-28 Irina A Shport
Purpose The goal of this study was to test whether fronting and lengthening of lax vowels influence the perception of femininity in listeners whose dialect is characterized as already having relatively fronted and long lax vowels in male and female speech. Method Sixteen English words containing the /ɪ ɛ ʊ ɑ/ vowels were produced by a male speaker with 2 degrees of vowel fronting. Then, the vowel duration
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Do Transmasculine Speakers Present With Gender-Related Voice Problems? Insights From a Participant-Centered Mixed-Methods Study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-24 David Azul,Aron Arnold,Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are indications of gender-related voice problems in our transmasculine participants and to analyze how discrepancies between participant self-evaluations and researcher-led examinations can be best negotiated to ensure a participant-centered interpretation. Method We conducted a participant-centered mixed-methods study combining qualitative
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The Relationship Between Motor Delays and Language Development in Very Low Birthweight Premature Children at 18 Months Corrected Age. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-20 Gail Ross,Rebecca Demaria,Vivien Yap
Purpose The aim of this study is to determine if there is a specific association between motor delays and receptive and expressive language function, respectively, in prematurely born children. Method Retrospective data review: 126 premature children ≤ 1,250-g birthweight from English-speaking families were evaluated on motor development (normal, mild delay, and moderate-severe delay) and the cognitive
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Do Infants Born Very Premature and Who Have Very Low Birth Weight Catch Up With Their Full Term Peers in Their Language Abilities by Early School Age? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-20 Emily Zimmerman
Purpose This study examined the extent to which children born preterm (< 37 weeks) and/or who have low birth weight (< 2,500 g) catch up with their full term peers in terms of their language abilities at early school age (≥ 5 to < 9 years). Method A systematic literature search identified empirical studies that fit the inclusion criteria. Data from the tests/questionnaires used for meta-analysis spanned
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Magnitude of Neck-Surface Vibration as an Estimate of Subglottal Pressure During Modulations of Vocal Effort and Intensity in Healthy Speakers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-20 Victoria S McKenna,Andres F Llico,Daryush D Mehta,Joseph S Perkell,Cara E Stepp
Purpose This study examined the relationship between the magnitude of neck-surface vibration (NSVMag; transduced with an accelerometer) and intraoral estimates of subglottal pressure (P'sg) during variations in vocal effort at 3 intensity levels. Method Twelve vocally healthy adults produced strings of /pɑ/ syllables in 3 vocal intensity conditions, while increasing vocal effort during each condition
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Tracking the Growth of Tense and Agreement in Children With Specific Language Impairment: Differences Between Measures of Accuracy, Diversity, and Productivity. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-20 Laurence B Leonard,Eileen Haebig,Patricia Deevy,Barbara Brown
Purpose Composite measures of children's use of tense and agreement morphology differ in their emphasis on accuracy, diversity, or productivity, yet little is known about how these different measures change over time. An understanding of these differences is especially important for the study of children with specific language impairment, given these children's extraordinary difficulty with this aspect
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A Multivariate Analytic Approach to the Differential Diagnosis of Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-20 Alexandra Basilakos,Grigori Yourganov,Dirk-Bart den Ouden,Daniel Fogerty,Chris Rorden,Lynda Feenaughty,Julius Fridriksson
Purpose Apraxia of speech (AOS) is a consequence of stroke that frequently co-occurs with aphasia. Its study is limited by difficulties with its perceptual evaluation and dissociation from co-occurring impairments. This study examined the classification accuracy of several acoustic measures for the differential diagnosis of AOS in a sample of stroke survivors. Method Fifty-seven individuals were included
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Gated Word Recognition by Postlingually Deafened Adults With Cochlear Implants: Influence of Semantic Context. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-16 Chhayakanta Patro,Lisa Lucks Mendel
Purpose The main goal of this study was to investigate the minimum amount of sensory information required to recognize spoken words (isolation points [IPs]) in listeners with cochlear implants (CIs) and investigate facilitative effects of semantic contexts on the IPs. Method Listeners with CIs as well as those with normal hearing (NH) participated in the study. In Experiment 1, the CI users listened
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Predicting Response to Treatment in a Tier 2 Supplemental Vocabulary Intervention. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-16 Elizabeth Kelley,Emily Leary,Howard Goldstein
Purpose To effectively implement a response to intervention approach, there is a need for timely and specific information about student learning in response to treatment to ensure that treatment decisions are appropriate. This exploratory study examined responsivity to a supplemental, Tier 2 vocabulary intervention delivered to preschool children with limited language abilities. Method A secondary
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Is the Role of External Feedback in Auditory Skill Learning Age Dependent? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-13 Yael Zaltz,Daphne Ari-Even Roth,Liat Kishon-Rabin
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of external feedback in auditory perceptual learning of school-age children as compared with that of adults. Method Forty-eight children (7-9 years of age) and 64 adults (20-35 years of age) conducted a training session using an auditory frequency discrimination (difference limen for frequency) task, with external feedback (EF) provided for
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Word Processing in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-10 Micheal Sandbank,Paul Yoder,Alexandra P Key
Purpose This investigation was conducted to determine whether young children with autism spectrum disorders exhibited a canonical neural response to word stimuli and whether putative event-related potential (ERP) measures of word processing were correlated with a concurrent measure of receptive language. Additional exploratory analyses were used to examine whether the magnitude of the association between
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Identifying Children at Risk for Language Impairment or Dyslexia With Group-Administered Measures. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-10 Suzanne M Adlof,Joanna Scoggins,Allison Brazendale,Spencer Babb,Yaacov Petscher
Purpose The study aims to determine whether brief, group-administered screening measures can reliably identify second-grade children at risk for language impairment (LI) or dyslexia and to examine the degree to which parents of affected children were aware of their children's difficulties. Method Participants (N = 381) completed screening tasks and assessments of word reading, oral language, and nonverbal
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Motivation to Address Self-Reported Hearing Problems in Adults With Normal Hearing Thresholds. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-10 Carly C M Alicea,Karen A Doherty
Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare the motivation to change in relation to hearing problems in adults with normal hearing thresholds but who report hearing problems and that of adults with a mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss. Factors related to their motivation were also assessed. Method The motivation to change in relation to self-reported hearing problems was measured using
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The Effects of Palate Features and Glossectomy Surgery on /s/ Production. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-10 Dana L Grimm,Maureen Stone,Jonghye Woo,Junghoon Lee,Jun-Hyuk Hwang,Gary E Bedrosian,Jerry L Prince
Purpose The aims of this article were to determine the effects of hard palate morphology and glossectomy surgery on tongue position and shape during /s/ for patients with small tumors. The first expectation was that laminal /s/ would be more prevalent in patients, than apical, due to reduced tongue tip control after surgery. The second was that patients would hold the tongue more anteriorly than controls
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Accentuate the Negative: Grammatical Errors During Narrative Production as a Clinical Marker of Central Nervous System Abnormality in School-Aged Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-10 John C Thorne
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine (a) whether increased grammatical error rates during a standardized narrative task are a more clinically useful marker of central nervous system abnormality in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) than common measures of productivity or grammatical complexity and (b) whether combining the rate of grammatical errors with the rate of cohesive referencing
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Effects of Aging on Interference During Pronoun Resolution. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-10 Jana Reifegerste,Claudia Felser
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of healthy aging on the ability to suppress grammatically illicit antecedents during pronoun resolution. Method In 2 reading-based acceptability-judgment experiments, younger and older speakers of German read sentences containing an object pronoun and 2 potential antecedent noun phrases, only 1 of which was a grammatically licit antecedent
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Collinearity and Sample Coverage Issues in the Objective Measurement of Vocal Quality: The Case of Roughness and Breathiness. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-10 Carlos A Ferrer,Tino Haderlein,Youri Maryn,Marc S de Bodt,Elmar Nöth
Purpose The aim of the study was to address the reported inconsistencies in the relationship between objective acoustic measures and perceptual ratings of vocal quality. Method This tutorial moves away from the more widely examined problems related to obtaining the perceptual ratings and the acoustic measures and centers in less scrutinized issues regarding the procedure to establish the correspondence
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False Belief Development in Children Who Are Hard of Hearing Compared With Peers With Normal Hearing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-07 Elizabeth A Walker,Sophie E Ambrose,Jacob Oleson,Mary Pat Moeller
Purpose This study investigates false belief (FB) understanding in children who are hard of hearing (CHH) compared with children with normal hearing (CNH) at ages 5 and 6 years and at 2nd grade. Research with this population has theoretical significance, given that the early auditory-linguistic experiences of CHH are less restricted compared with children who are deaf but not as complete as those of
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Sentence-Level Movements in Parkinson's Disease: Loud, Clear, and Slow Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-07 Elaine Kearney,Renuka Giles,Brandon Haworth,Petros Faloutsos,Melanie Baljko,Yana Yunusova
Purpose To further understand the effect of Parkinson's disease (PD) on articulatory movements in speech and to expand our knowledge of therapeutic treatment strategies, this study examined movements of the jaw, tongue blade, and tongue dorsum during sentence production with respect to speech intelligibility and compared the effect of varying speaking styles on these articulatory movements. Method
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Modeling Speech Level as a Function of Background Noise Level and Talker-to-Listener Distance for Talkers Wearing Hearing Protection Devices. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-06 Rachel E Bouserhal,Annelies Bockstael,Ewen MacDonald,Tiago H Falk,Jérémie Voix
Purpose Studying the variations in speech levels with changing background noise level and talker-to-listener distance for talkers wearing hearing protection devices (HPDs) can aid in understanding communication in background noise. Method Speech was recorded using an intra-aural HPD from 12 different talkers at 5 different distances in 3 different noise conditions and 2 quiet conditions. Results This
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Receptive Vocabulary, Cognitive Flexibility, and Inhibitory Control Differentially Predict Older and Younger Adults' Success Perceiving Speech by Talkers With Dysarthria. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-06 Erin M Ingvalson,Kaitlin L Lansford,Valeriya Fedorova,Gabriel Fernandez
Purpose Previous research has demonstrated equivocal findings related to the effect of listener age on intelligibility ratings of dysarthric speech. The aim of the present study was to investigate the mechanisms that support younger and older adults' perception of speech by talkers with dysarthria. Method Younger and older adults identified words in phrases produced by talkers with dysarthria. Listeners
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Statistical Learning in Specific Language Impairment: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-18 Imme Lammertink,Paul Boersma,Frank Wijnen,Judith Rispens
Purpose The current meta-analysis provides a quantitative overview of published and unpublished studies on statistical learning in the auditory verbal domain in people with and without specific language impairment (SLI). The database used for the meta-analysis is accessible online and open to updates (Community-Augmented Meta-Analysis), which facilitates the accumulation and evaluation of previous
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The Origins of Verb Learning: Preverbal and Postverbal Infants' Learning of Word-Action Relations. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-17 Lakshmi Gogate,Madhavilatha Maganti
Purpose This experiment examined English- or Spanish-learning preverbal (8-9 months, n = 32) and postverbal (12-14 months, n = 40) infants' learning of word-action pairings prior to and after the transition to verb comprehension and its relation to naturally learned vocabulary. Method Infants of both verbal levels were first habituated to 2 dynamic video displays of novel word-action pairings, the
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Interfering With Inner Speech Selectively Disrupts Problem Solving and Is Linked With Real-World Executive Functioning. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-10 Gregory L Wallace,Cynthia S Peng,David Williams
Purpose According to Vygotskian theory, verbal thinking serves to guide our behavior and underpins critical self-regulatory functions. Indeed, numerous studies now link inner speech usage with performance on tests of executive function (EF). However, the selectivity of inner speech contributions to multifactorial executive planning performance and links with real-world functioning are limited. Therefore
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The Role of Phonological Working Memory and Environmental Factors in Lexical Development in Italian-Speaking Late Talkers: A One-Year Follow-Up Study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-10 Andrea Marini,Milena Ruffino,Maria Enrica Sali,Massimo Molteni
Purpose This follow-up study assessed (a) the influence of phonological working memory (pWM), home literacy environment, and a family history of linguistic impairments in late talkers (LTs); (b) the diagnostic accuracy of a task of nonword repetition (NWR) in identifying LTs; and (c) the persistence of lexical weaknesses after 10 months. Method Two hundred ninety-three children were assessed at approximately
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Categorical Perception of Mandarin Chinese Tones 1-2 and Tones 1-4: Effects of Aging and Signal Duration. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-10 Yuxia Wang,Xiaohu Yang,Chang Liu
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the aging effect on the categorical perception of Mandarin Chinese tones with varied fundamental frequency (F0) contours and signal duration. Method Both younger and older native Chinese listeners with normal hearing were recruited in 2 experiments: tone identification and tone discrimination on a series of stimuli with the F0 contour systematically
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Recognition and Comprehension of "Narrow Focus" by Young Adults With Prelingual Hearing Loss Using Hearing Aids or Cochlear Implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-10 Osnat Segal,Liat Kishon-Rabin
Purpose The stressed word in a sentence (narrow focus [NF]) conveys information about the intent of the speaker and is therefore important for processing spoken language and in social interactions. The ability of participants with severe-to-profound prelingual hearing loss to comprehend NF has rarely been investigated. The purpose of this study was to assess the recognition and comprehension of NF
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Reproducibility of Dual-Microphone Voice Range Profile Equipment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-10 Trine Printz,Ellen Raben Pedersen,Peter Juhl,Troels Nielsen,Ågot Møller Grøntved,Christian Godballe
Purpose The aim of this study was to add further knowledge about the usefulness of the Voice Range Profile (VRP) assessment in clinical settings and research by analyzing VRP dual-microphone equipment precision, reliability, and room effect. Method Test-retest studies were conducted in an anechoic chamber and an office: (a) comparing sound pressure levels (SPLs) from a dual-microphone VRP device, the
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Distributional Learning in College Students With Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Jessica Hall,Amanda Owen Van Horne,Karla K McGregor,Thomas Farmer
Purpose This study examined whether college students with developmental language disorder (DLD) could use distributional information in an artificial language to learn about grammatical category membership in a way similar to their typically developing (TD) peers. Method Seventeen college students with DLD and 17 TD college students participated in this task. We used an artificial grammar in which
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Understanding Bilingual Word Learning: The Role of Phonotactic Probability and Phonological Neighborhood Density. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Vishnu Kk Nair,Britta Biedermann,Lyndsey Nickels
Purpose Previous research has shown that the language-learning mechanism is affected by bilingualism resulting in a novel word learning advantage for bilingual speakers. However, less is known about the factors that might influence this advantage. This article reports an investigation of 2 factors: phonotactic probability and phonological neighborhood density. Method Acquisition of 15 novel words varying
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Infant-Directed Speech Enhances Attention to Speech in Deaf Infants With Cochlear Implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Yuanyuan Wang,Tonya R Bergeson,Derek M Houston
Purpose Both theoretical models of infant language acquisition and empirical studies posit important roles for attention to speech in early language development. However, deaf infants with cochlear implants (CIs) show reduced attention to speech as compared with their peers with normal hearing (NH; Horn, Davis, Pisoni, & Miyamoto, 2005; Houston, Pisoni, Kirk, Ying, & Miyamoto, 2003), which may affect
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Development of Pointing Gestures in Children With Typical and Delayed Language Acquisition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Carina Lüke,Ute Ritterfeld,Angela Grimminger,Ulf Liszkowski,Katharina J Rohlfing
Purpose This longitudinal study compared the development of hand and index-finger pointing in children with typical language development (TD) and children with language delay (LD). First, we examined whether the number and the form of pointing gestures during the second year of life are potential indicators of later LD. Second, we analyzed the influence of caregivers' gestural and verbal input on children's
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Developmental Associations Between Working Memory and Language in Children With Specific Language Impairment: A Longitudinal Study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Brigitte Vugs,Marc Hendriks,Juliane Cuperus,Harry Knoors,Ludo Verhoeven
Purpose This longitudinal study examined differences in the development of working memory (WM) between children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children. Further, it explored to what extent language at ages 7-8 years could be predicted by measures of language and/or WM at ages 4-5 years. Method Thirty children with SLI and 33 TD children who were previously examined
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Age-Related Variability in Tongue Pressure Patterns for Maximum Isometric and Saliva Swallowing Tasks. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Melanie Peladeau-Pigeon,Catriona M Steele
Purpose The ability to generate tongue pressure plays a major role in bolus transport in swallowing. In studies of motor control, stability or variability of movement is a feature that changes with age, disease, task complexity, and perturbation. In this study, we explored whether age and tongue strength influence the stability of the tongue pressure generation pattern during isometric and swallowing
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Auditory Attentional Set-Shifting and Inhibition in Children Who Stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Kurt Eggers,Eira Jansson-Verkasalo
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate whether previously reported parental questionnaire-based differences in attentional shifting and inhibitory control (AS and IC; Eggers, De Nil, & Van den Bergh, 2010) would be supported by direct measurement of AS and IC using a computer task. Method Participants were 16 Finnish children who stutter (CWS; mean age = 7.06 years) and 16 Finnish children
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Academic Vocabulary Learning in First Through Third Grade in Low-Income Schools: Effects of Automated Supplemental Instruction. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Howard Goldstein,Robyn A Ziolkowski,Kathryn E Bojczyk,Ana Marty,Naomi Schneider,Jayme Harpring,Christa D Haring
Purpose This study investigated cumulative effects of language learning, specifically whether prior vocabulary knowledge or special education status moderated the effects of academic vocabulary instruction in high-poverty schools. Method Effects of a supplemental intervention targeting academic vocabulary in first through third grades were evaluated with 241 students (6-9 years old) from low-income
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Associations Between the 2D:4D Proxy Biomarker for Prenatal Hormone Exposures and Symptoms of Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Sean M Redmond,Andrea C Ash
Purpose Relative lengths of the index (2D) and ring (4D) fingers in humans represent a retrospective biomarker of prenatal hormonal exposures. For this reason, the 2D:4D digit ratio can be used to investigate potential hormonal contributions to the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. This study tested potential group differences in 2D:4D digit ratios in a sample of boys with and without developmental
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Preliminary Evidence That Growth in Productive Language Differentiates Childhood Stuttering Persistence and Recovery. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Kathryn A Leech,Nan Bernstein Ratner,Barbara Brown,Christine M Weber
Purpose Childhood stuttering is common but is often outgrown. Children whose stuttering persists experience significant life impacts, calling for a better understanding of what factors may underlie eventual recovery. In previous research, language ability has been shown to differentiate children who stutter (CWS) from children who do not stutter, yet there is an active debate in the field regarding
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With Some Help From Others' Hands: Iconic Gesture Helps Semantic Learning in Children With Specific Language Impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-04 Susanne S Vogt,Christina Kauschke
Purpose Semantic learning under 2 co-speech gesture conditions was investigated in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children. Learning was analyzed between conditions. Method Twenty children with SLI (aged 4 years), 20 TD children matched for age, and 20 TD children matched for language scores were taught rare nouns and verbs. Children heard the target
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A Method to Administer Agents to the Larynx in an Awake Large Animal. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-04 Abigail Durkes,M Preeti Sivasankar
Purpose This research note describes an adapted experimental methodology to administer an exogenous agent to the larynx and upper airway of awake animals. The exogenous agent could be a perturbation. In the current study, the agent was isotonic saline. Isotonic saline was selected because it is safe, of similar composition to extracellular fluid, and used in voice studies. The described approach allowed
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Developing Appreciation for Sarcasm and Sarcastic Gossip: It Depends on Perspective. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-04 Melanie Glenwright,Brent Tapley,Jacqueline K S Rano,Penny M Pexman
Background Speakers use sarcasm to criticize others and to be funny; the indirectness of sarcasm protects the addressee's face (Brown & Levinson, 1987). Thus, appreciation of sarcasm depends on the ability to consider perspectives. Purpose We investigated development of this ability from late childhood into adulthood and examined effects of interpretive perspective and parties present. Method We presented
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Procedural Motor Learning in Children With Specific Language Impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-02 Teenu Sanjeevan,Elina Mainela-Arnold
Purpose Specific language impairment (SLI) is a developmental disorder that affects language and motor development in the absence of a clear cause. An explanation for these impairments is offered by the procedural deficit hypothesis (PDH), which argues that motor difficulties in SLI are due to deficits in procedural memory. The aim of this study was to test the PDH by examining the procedural motor
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Language Outcomes in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: The Role of Language Ability Before Hearing Aid Intervention. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-11-01 Olivia Daub,Marlene P Bagatto,Andrew M Johnson,Janis Oram Cardy
Purpose Early auditory experiences are fundamental in infant language acquisition. Research consistently demonstrates the benefits of early intervention (i.e., hearing aids) to language outcomes in children who are deaf and hard of hearing. The nature of these benefits and their relation with prefitting development are, however, not well understood. Method This study examined Ontario Infant Hearing
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Acoustics of Clear and Noise-Adapted Speech in Children, Young, and Older Adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-28 Rajka Smiljanic,Rachael C Gilbert
Purpose This study investigated acoustic-phonetic modifications produced in noise-adapted speech (NAS) and clear speech (CS) by children, young adults, and older adults. Method Ten children (11-13 years of age), 10 young adults (18-29 years of age), and 10 older adults (60-84 years of age) read sentences in conversational and clear speaking style in quiet and in noise. A number of acoustic measurements
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Predicting Intelligibility Gains in Dysarthria Through Automated Speech Feature Analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-28 Annalise R Fletcher,Alan A Wisler,Megan J McAuliffe,Kaitlin L Lansford,Julie M Liss
Purpose Behavioral speech modifications have variable effects on the intelligibility of speakers with dysarthria. In the companion article, a significant relationship was found between measures of speakers' baseline speech and their intelligibility gains following cues to speak louder and reduce rate (Fletcher, McAuliffe, Lansford, Sinex, & Liss, 2017). This study reexamines these features and assesses
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Influence of Altered Auditory Feedback on Oral-Nasal Balance in Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-28 Gillian de Boer,Tim Bressmann
Purpose This study explored the role of auditory feedback in the regulation of oral-nasal balance in speech. Method Twenty typical female speakers wore a Nasometer 6450 (KayPentax) headset and headphones while continuously repeating a sentence with oral and nasal sounds. Oral-nasal balance was quantified with nasalance scores. The signals from 2 additional oral and nasal microphones were played back
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Generalized Adaptation to Dysarthric Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-28 Stephanie A Borrie,Kaitlin L Lansford,Tyson S Barrett
Purpose Generalization of perceptual learning has received limited attention in listener adaptation studies with dysarthric speech. This study investigated whether adaptation to a talker with dysarthria could be predicted by the nature of the listener's prior familiarization experience, specifically similarity of perceptual features, and level of intelligibility. Method Following an intelligibility
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Predicting Intelligibility Gains in Individuals With Dysarthria From Baseline Speech Features. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-28 Annalise R Fletcher,Megan J McAuliffe,Kaitlin L Lansford,Donal G Sinex,Julie M Liss
Purpose Across the treatment literature, behavioral speech modifications have produced variable intelligibility changes in speakers with dysarthria. This study is the first of two articles exploring whether measurements of baseline speech features can predict speakers' responses to these modifications. Methods Fifty speakers (7 older individuals and 43 speakers with dysarthria) read a standard passage
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Verbal Working Memory in Children With Cochlear Implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-28 Susan Nittrouer,Amanda Caldwell-Tarr,Keri E Low,Joanna H Lowenstein
Purpose Verbal working memory in children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing was examined. Participants Ninety-three fourth graders (47 with normal hearing, 46 with cochlear implants) participated, all of whom were in a longitudinal study and had working memory assessed 2 years earlier. Method A dual-component model of working memory was adopted, and a serial recall task measured
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Intelligibility of Noise-Adapted and Clear Speech in Child, Young Adult, and Older Adult Talkers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-28 Rajka Smiljanic,Rachael C Gilbert
Purpose This study examined intelligibility of conversational and clear speech sentences produced in quiet and in noise by children, young adults, and older adults. Relative talker intelligibility was assessed across speaking styles. Method Sixty-one young adult participants listened to sentences mixed with speech-shaped noise at -5 dB signal-to-noise ratio. The analyses examined percent correct scores
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Tongue- and Jaw-Specific Contributions to Acoustic Vowel Contrast Changes in the Diphthong /ai/ in Response to Slow, Loud, and Clear Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-27 Antje S Mefferd
Purpose This study sought to determine decoupled tongue and jaw displacement changes and their specific contributions to acoustic vowel contrast changes during slow, loud, and clear speech. Method Twenty typical talkers repeated "see a kite again" 5 times in 4 speech conditions (typical, slow, loud, clear). Speech kinematics were recorded using 3-dimensional electromagnetic articulography. Tongue composite
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Consonant Age-of-Acquisition Effects in Nonword Repetition Are Not Articulatory in Nature. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-21 Michelle W Moore,Julie A Fiez,Connie A Tompkins
Purpose Most research examining long-term-memory effects on nonword repetition (NWR) has focused on lexical-level variables. Phoneme-level variables have received little attention, although there are reasons to expect significant sublexical effects in NWR. To further understand the underlying processes of NWR, this study examined effects of sublexical long-term phonological knowledge by testing whether
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Enhancing Auditory Selective Attention Using a Visually Guided Hearing Aid. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-20 Gerald Kidd
Purpose Listeners with hearing loss, as well as many listeners with clinically normal hearing, often experience great difficulty segregating talkers in a multiple-talker sound field and selectively attending to the desired "target" talker while ignoring the speech from unwanted "masker" talkers and other sources of sound. This listening situation forms the classic "cocktail party problem" described
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Speech Understanding in Complex Listening Environments by Listeners Fit With Cochlear Implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-20 Michael F Dorman,Rene H Gifford
Purpose The aim of this article is to summarize recent published and unpublished research from our 2 laboratories on improving speech understanding in complex listening environments by listeners fit with cochlear implants (CIs). Method CI listeners were tested in 2 listening environments. One was a simulation of a restaurant with multiple, diffuse noise sources, and the other was a cocktail party with
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Age-Related Changes in Objective and Subjective Speech Perception in Complex Listening Environments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-20 Karen S Helfer,Gabrielle R Merchant,Peter A Wasiuk
Purpose A frequent complaint by older adults is difficulty communicating in challenging acoustic environments. The purpose of this work was to review and summarize information about how speech perception in complex listening situations changes across the adult age range. Method This article provides a review of age-related changes in speech understanding in complex listening environments and summarizes
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Speech Perception in Complex Acoustic Environments: Developmental Effects. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-20 Lori J Leibold
Purpose The ability to hear and understand speech in complex acoustic environments follows a prolonged time course of development. The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of the literature describing age effects in susceptibility to auditory masking in the context of speech recognition, including a summary of findings related to the maturation of processes thought to facilitate
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Cortical and Sensory Causes of Individual Differences in Selective Attention Ability Among Listeners With Normal Hearing Thresholds. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2017-10-20 Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Purpose This review provides clinicians with an overview of recent findings relevant to understanding why listeners with normal hearing thresholds (NHTs) sometimes suffer from communication difficulties in noisy settings. Method The results from neuroscience and psychoacoustics are reviewed. Results In noisy settings, listeners focus their attention by engaging cortical brain networks to suppress unimportant