Purpose: While there has been mounting research centered on the diagnosis of childhood
apraxia of speech (CAS), little has focused on differentiating CAS from pediatric dysarthria …

Ultrasound tongue imaging has become a promising technique for detecting covert
contrasts, due to the developments in data analysis methods that allow for processing …

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 …

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 …

The current study examined early grammatical marking in a relatively understudied
language, Mandarin, by using the Mandarin version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative …

Purpose The goal of this study was to better understand how and when onset/l/(leap) and
coda/l/(peel) are acquired by children by examining both the articulations involved and …

Word-final consonants in Spanish are commonly assumed to undergo resyllabification
across a word boundary before a following vowel, eg,/los# otros/'the others' is realised as [lo …

While some sound changes occur in environments defined in purely phonological terms,
others may become sensitive to morphological boundaries. In this paper, we investigate the …

Previous studies reporting the use of ultrasound tongue imaging with clinical populations
have generally provided qualitative information on tongue movement. Meaningful …