The Phonetics of Dysarthria - Studies in Production and Perception - Ioannis Papakyritsis

The Phonetics of Dysarthria - Studies in Production and Perception - Ioannis Papakyritsis

10. Results of the Experiments Combined

The Phonetics of Dysarthria - Studies in Production and Perception - Ioannis Papakyritsis

Ioannis Papakyritsis [+-]
University of Patras
Ioannis Papakyritsis is an assistant professor in the department of Speech and Language Therapy at University of Patras and a certified clinician. He has worked as an assistant professor in Western Illinois University. He holds a PhD from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research interests include clinical acoustic phonetics and the analysis of suprasegmentals in neurogenic speech disorders. He is teaching classes on communication disorders at undergraduate and Master’s levels and he has been working as a clinical supervisor of student clinicians and as speech & language therapist. He currently lives in Patras, Greece.
Marie Klopfenstein [+-]
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Marie Klopfenstein, Ph.D. in an Associate Professor in the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology program, which is part of the Department of Applied Health at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in phonetics, speech science, and voice. Dr. Klopfenstein has presented and published widely on acoustic and perceptual correlates of speech naturalness. Her other research includes voice services for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, speech rate, sonority, and phonetic transcription, with current focus on populations with unmet needs and issues with accessing speech and language services.
Ben Rutter [+-]
University of Sheffield
Ben Rutter is a lecturer in Clinical Linguistics at the University of Sheffield. He has a degree in Linguistics and Phonetics from the University of York and did his Ph.D. in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette under the supervision of Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller. His research focuses on the role of phonetics in Speech and Language Therapy and he has written extensively on interactional phonetics and dysarthria. More recently he has been working on topics related to the Medical Humanities. Ben is on the editorial board for the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.

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This chapter endeavors to analyze the results of the two experiments together in order to address the final aim of this study: to describe the prosodic and acoustic characteristics of dysarthric speech that is rated either highly natural or unnatural. In order to address this goal, speech samples were first ranked most and least natural for each speaker, then the acoustic correlates of prosody of each of these samples were investigated. In order to rank which speech samples were rated most and least natural overall for each speaker, naturalness ratings from all reliable judges were first averaged for each sample. Then the averaged naturalness ratings per sample were ranked from lowest to highest for each subject. The acoustic characteristics of the top and bottom third of all ranked samples for each subject, the most and least natural overall rated samples respectively, will be discussed shortly.

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Papakyritsis, Ioannis ; Klopfenstein, Marie; Rutter, Ben. 10. Results of the Experiments Combined. The Phonetics of Dysarthria - Studies in Production and Perception. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 221-255 Jul 2022. ISBN 9781800500181. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=41374. Date accessed: 21 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.41374. Jul 2022

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