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 …

Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs) is a generic term used to describe a range of difficulties
producing speech sounds in children. The foundations of clinical assessment, classification …

Many studies report shorter acoustic durations, more coarticulation and reduced articulatory
targets for frequent words. This study investigates a factor ignored in discussions on the …

A new method for quantifying contextual variability at different regions of the tongue using
ultrasound spline data reveals that tongue body coarticulatory resistance for Catalan …

Purpose Current approaches to speech production aim to explain adult behavior and so
make assumptions that, when taken to their logical conclusion, fail to adequately account for …

Purpose This study examines the temporal organization of vocalic anticipation in German
children from 3 to 7 years of age and adults. The main objective was to test for nonlinear …

Purpose This study reports on a cross-sectional investigation of lingual coarticulation in 57
typically developing German children (4 cohorts from 3.5 to 7 years of age) as compared …

The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural
combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to reading (dis) …

In the first years of life, children differ greatly from adults in the temporal organization of their
speech gestures in fluent language production. However, dissent remains as to the …

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the role of motor control immaturity in the speech
production characteristics of 4-year-old children, compared to adults. Specifically, two …