This study evaluates whether early vocalizations develop in similar ways in children across
diverse cultural contexts. We analyze data from daylong audio recordings of 49 children (1 …

Background Speech is integral for human interaction and development. Speech
assessments are critical in the growing child, especially in the surgical evaluation of patients …

Differences in formant frequencies between men and women contribute to the perception of
voices as masculine or feminine. This study investigated whether visual-acoustic …

Purpose: Limited research has examined the suitability of crowdsourced ratings to measure
treatment effects in speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD), particularly for constructs such …

Purpose Interventions for speech disorders aim to produce changes that are not only
acoustically measurable or perceptible to trained professionals but are also apparent to …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe changes in speech intelligibility and interrater
and intrarater reliability of naive listeners' ratings of words produced by young children …

Recent research has demonstrated that perceptual ratings aggregated across multiple non-
expert listeners can reveal gradient degrees of contrast between sounds that listeners might …

Purpose The purpose of the present study was to document the efficacy of
electropalatography (EPG) for the treatment of rhotic errors in school-age children. Despite a …

Purpose Independent laypersons are essential in the assessment of intelligibility in persons
with dysarthria (PWD), as they reflect intelligibility limitations in the most ecologically valid …

Given the increasing prevalence of online data collection, it is important to know how
behavioral data obtained online compare to samples collected in the laboratory. This study …