Purpose: The categorization of silent intervals during speech production is necessary for
accurate measurement of articulation rate and pauses. The primary purpose of this …

Purpose: The study aim was to determine whether the mean duration of silent pauses
depends on the word class (open or closed) and to compare the duration for each type of …

This study examined the possibility that children who omit word-final stops as a clinical entity
may preserve the voicing contrast of those omitted stops by differential durations of the …

Articulation rate, speaking rate, as well as the duration and location of pauses, were
analysed in 10 children with specific language impairment (SLI) and a comparison group of …

Pauses that occur in the speech of children with misarticulations were measured and
compared with those of normal children in terms of the duration of pauses and frequency of …

This study examined long-term changes in articulation rate (the pace at which speech
segments are produced) and phonetic phrase length in the conversational speech of two …

Children with cleft palate and velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD) often present with disorders
of articulation, resonance, and phonation. Although limited, previous research has shown …

Objectives: This study investigated the articulatory characteristics of initial stops in the
speech of 1-2-year-old children. Methods: A total of 35 typically developing children aged 1 …

The purpose of this study is to bring related sources of data, ie, phonological and acoustic
phonetic, to bear on the characterization of two children's disordered phonological systems …

Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to examine the effect of sentence length on
speech rate and its characteristics, articulation rate, and pauses in children with …