There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

Speech and voice changes are a central feature of the symptom complex of people with
Parkinson's disease (pwPD). Speaking is a social activity involving the pwPD, family, and …

Purpose Given the potential significance of speech naturalness to functional and social
rehabilitation outcomes, the objective of this study was to examine the effect of listener …

This article covers recent developments in the understanding of communication changes in
idiopathic Parkinson's disease and selected issues in intervention. By contrast to earlier …

70% to 90% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) show an affected voice. Various
studies revealed, that voice and prosody is one of the earliest indicators of PD. The issue of …

Articulation and phonation is affected in 70% to 90% of patients with Parkinson's disease
(PD). This study focuses on the question whether speech carries information about 1. PD …

Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) usually reveal speech disorders and, among other
symptoms, the alteration of speech rhythm. The purpose of this study is twofold:(1) to test the …

Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressive, neurological disease that affects millions of
individuals worldwide. Although instability, rigidity, tremor, and bradykinesia are considered …

This study investigated the acoustic basis of within-speaker, across-utterance variation in
sentence intelligibility for 12 speakers with dysarthria secondary to Parkinson's disease …

Parkinson's disease is characterized not only by bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor, but also
by impairments of expressive and receptive linguistic prosody. The facilitating effect of music …