An acoustic investigation of Parkinsonian speech in linguistic and emotional contexts

HS Cheang, MD Pell - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2007 - Elsevier
The speech prosody of a group of patients in the early stages of Parkinson's disease (PD)
was compared to that of a group of healthy age-and education-matched controls to quantify …

The impact of Parkinson's disease on vocal-prosodic communication from the perspective of listeners

MD Pell, HS Cheang, CL Leonard - Brain and language, 2006 - Elsevier
An expressive disturbance of speech prosody has long been associated with idiopathic
Parkinson's disease (PD), but little is known about the impact of dysprosody on vocal …

Acoustic analysis of speech prosody in Huntington's and Parkinson's disease: a preliminary report

I Hertrich, H Ackermann - Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
Perceptual studies have indicated that basal ganglia dysfunctions such as Parkinson's
disease (PD) and Huntington's disease (HD) may give rise to impaired prosodic speech …

Impaired perception of vocal emotions in Parkinson's disease: influence of speech time processing and executive functioning

C Breitenstein, D Van Lancker, I Daum, CH Waters - Brain and cognition, 2001 - Elsevier
Little is known about the underlying dimensions of impaired recognition of emotional
prosody that is frequently observed in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Because …

Acoustic characteristics of Parkinsonian speech: a potential biomarker of early disease progression and treatment

BT Harel, MS Cannizzaro, H Cohen, N Reilly… - Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
One of the frequent signs of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the presence of a progressive
hypokinetic dysarthria. Numerous studies have since documented speech motor …

Comprehension of prosody in Parkinson's disease

AJ Lloyd - Cortex, 1999 - Elsevier
The evidence for a receptive prosodic loss in Parkinson's disease (PD) has remained
inconclusive since the first reports in the early 1980s (Scott, Caird and Williams, 1984). The …

Gender-related patterns of dysprosody in Parkinson disease and correlation between speech variables and motor symptoms

S Skodda, W Visser, U Schlegel - Journal of Voice, 2011 - Elsevier
Explorative analysis of prosodic parameters in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) and in
healthy controls in correlation to gender, disease-specific parameters, and motor symptoms …

Variability in fundamental frequency during speech in prodromal and incipient Parkinson's disease: A longitudinal case study

B Harel, M Cannizzaro, PJ Snyder - Brain and cognition, 2004 - Elsevier
Nearly two centuries ago, Parkinson (1817) first observed that a particular pattern of speech
changes occur in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). Numerous studies have …

A characterization of the prosodic loss in Parkinson's disease

AW Darkins, VA Fromkin, DF Benson - Brain and Language, 1988 - Elsevier
Prosodic contours in the verbal output of 30 patients with Idiopathic Parkinson's disease
were contrasted to those of fifteen age-, sex-, and educationally matched normal subjects …

Perception of speech by individuals with Parkinson′ s disease: a review

LC Kwan, TL Whitehill - Parkinson's Disease, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A few clinical reports and empirical studies have suggested a possible deficit in the
perception of speech in individuals with Parkinson′ s disease. In this paper, these studies …