Selecting an acoustic correlate for automated measurement of American English rhotic production in children.

Purpose: A current need in the field of speech-language pathology is the development of reliable and efficient techniques to evaluate accuracy of speech targets over the course of treatment. As acoustic measurement techniques improve, it should become possible to use automated scoring in lieu of rat...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 20; no. 6; pp. 635 - 644
Autores principales: CAMPBELL, HEATHER, HAREL, DAPHNA, HITCHCOCK, ELAINE, BYUN, TARA MCALLISTER
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2018
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          CAMPBELL, HEATHER
          HAREL, DAPHNA
          HITCHCOCK, ELAINE
          BYUN, TARA MCALLISTER
        affil: Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development, New York, NY, USA
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          Speech Disorders Therapy
          Speech Production Measurement In Infancy and Childhood
          Automation
          Speech Acoustics
          Linguistics
          Accents and Dialects
          Algorithms
          Human
          Funding Source
          Multiple Regression
          Phonetics
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          Female
          Child
          Child, Preschool
          Infant
          Infant, Newborn
          Data Analysis Software
          Chi Square Test
          Child: 6-12 years
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
          Infant: 1-23 months
          Infant, Newborn: birth-1 month
          Male
          Female
      ab: Purpose: A current need in the field of speech-language pathology is the development of reliable and efficient techniques to evaluate accuracy of speech targets over the course of treatment. As acoustic measurement techniques improve, it should become possible to use automated scoring in lieu of ratings from a trained clinician in some contexts. This study asks which acoustic measures correspond most closely with expert ratings of children's productions of American English /ɹ/ in an effort to develop an automated scoring algorithm for use in treatment targeting rhotics. Method: A series of ordinal mixed-effects regression models were fit over a large sample of children's productions of words containing /ɹ/ that had previously been rated by three trained clinicians. Akaike/Bayesian Information Criteria were used to select the best-fitting model. Result: Controlling for age, sex, and allophonic contextual differences, the measure that accounted for the most variance in speech rating was F3-F2 distance normalised relative to a sample of age- and sex-matched speakers. Conclusion: We recommend this acoustic measure for use in future automated scoring of children's production of American English rhotics. We also suggest that computer-based treatment with automated scoring should facilitate increases in treatment dosage by improving options for home practice.
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