Spatial & temporal variability of sibilants in children with down’s syndrome

Timmins, Claire and Wood, Sara (2015) Spatial & temporal variability of sibilants in children with down’s syndrome. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - ICPhS 2015. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4

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    Abstract

    This paper presents findings from EPG analysis of word initial /s/ and /ʃ/ in twenty five children with Down’s syndrome (DS) and ten cognitively age-matched typically developing children (TD). Spatial and temporal variability measures show evidence of increased variability in all attempts of target /s/ and /ʃ/ for the speakers with DS. The findings also show evidence of high levels of spatial variability in children with DS and typically developing children in perceptually acceptable productions of the target sounds. These findings support previous research that links speech production difficulties in children with DS to impaired speech motor ability.

    Author(s):Timmins, Claire ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4711-7113 and Wood, Sara
    Item type:Book Section
    ID code:54567
    Keywords:Down’s syndrome, sibilant fricatives, EPG, variability, Speech and Hearing, Linguistics and Language
    Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Psychological Science and Health > Speech and Language Therapy
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:13 Oct 2015 15:29
    Last modified:13 Nov 2019 05:07
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54567
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