Much sensory-motor behavior develops through imitation, as during the learning of
handwriting by children. Such complex sequential acts are broken down into distinct motor …

Background With respect to the clinical criteria for diagnosing childhood apraxia of speech
(commonly defined as a disorder of speech motor planning and/or programming), research …

Sound Patterns of Spoken English is a concise, to-the-point compendium of information
about the casual pronunciation of everyday English as compared to formal citation forms …

Throughout a typical day the speech produced by an individual varies greatly. The details of
utterances depend on the environment, the physical and emotional state of the talker, and …

Purpose Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) has been associated with a wide variety of
diagnostic descriptions and has been shown to involve different symptoms during …

Lesions to or diseases of the cerebellum may disrupt the motor components of speech
production both at the segmental and suprasegmental level giving rise to “ataxic dysarthria” …

The aim of this study was to enhance our insight into the underlying deficit in developmental
apraxia of speech (DAS). In particular, the involvement of planning and/or programming of …

The phenomenon of coarticulation is relevant for issues as varied as lexical processing and
language change, but research to date has not determined with certainty how far such …

The present study investigated the articulatory control of the German vowel quantity contrast,
ie, the phonological difference between short and long vowels. By means of an …

Objective Prephonatory vocal fold angle trajectories may supply useful information about the
laryngeal system but were examined in previous studies using sigmoidal curves fit to data …