The recognition of spoken language has typically been studied by focusing on either words
or their constituent elements (for example, low-level features or phonemes). More recently …

Many studies evaluate dysphagia in elderly patients and compare their swallowing to
younger controls to assess the degree of swallowing impairment. Previous research …

This paper describes the acquisition of a new database of dysarthric speech in terms of
aligned acoustics and articulatory data. This database currently includes data from seven …

Background. Recently, subclinical aspiration has been identified in approximately 30% of
community-dwelling older adults. Given that the tongue is a key component of the safe …

Background The swallowing mechanism changes significantly as people age, even in the
absence of chronic diseases. Presbyphagia, a term that refers to aging-related changes in …

This study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of dysphagia and evaluated the
association of dysphagia and activities of daily living in a geriatric population residing in an …

The ability to synchronize body movements with quasi-regular auditory stimuli represents a
fundamental trait in humans at the core of speech and music. Despite the long trajectory of …

Background Oral‐diadochokinesis (oral‐DDK) tasks are extensively used in the evaluation
of motor speech abilities. Currently, validated normative data for older adults (aged 65 years …

Dysarthric speech has several pathological characteristics, such as discontinuous
pronunciation, uncontrolled volume, slow speech, explosive pronunciation, improper …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the nature and extent of variability in
tongue movement during healthy swallowing as a function of aging and gender. In addition …