{"title":"Stuttering in Mandarin-speaking adults.","authors":"Yuting Song, Michael P Robb, Yong Yang, Yang Chen","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2507045","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2507045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mandarin, a tonal language, features four distinct lexical tones (T1, T2, T3, T4) and one neutral tone (T0), each with unique pitch variations. This exploratory study examined the relationship between these tones and stuttering in 26 Mandarin-speaking adults. The amount of stuttering that occurred for each type of tone was identified and analysed according to absolute occurrence across tones, as well as the relative occurrence within each type of tone. Significant differences were found in absolute occurrence of stuttering across tones with the neutral tone (T0) showing the lowest stuttering frequency and T3 and T4 the highest. The relative occurrence of stuttering also identified the lowest stuttering for T0; however, the four lexical tones did not significantly differ. The results suggest that a specific type of lexical tone is unlikely to trigger a moment of stutter. Rather, it is the variation in tonal patterns during the speech stream that leads to a disruption in fluency.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144143130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A processability theory perspective on morphosyntax in school-age children with developmental language disorder.","authors":"Gisela Håkansson, Nelli Kalnak","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2499147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2499147","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the production of morphosyntax in Swedish-speaking children diagnosed with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Data from a Sentence Repetition Task was used to investigate if there is an implicational order according to Processability Theory (PT) in grammatical structures produced by school-age children with DLD. PT is a cognitive theory of language development that assumes five implicational stages of morphosyntactic development. The analysis was based on a selection of sentences representing the different PT stages. The participants (<i>n</i> = 49; 6;5-11;5 years of age) were recruited from school language units for children with DLD. The results confirm an implicational order: the participants produced structures from a higher stage only if they also produced structures from lower stages. It is suggested that the developmental hierarchy can be used in the intervention of children with DLD by focusing on the next stage. Also, only 26.5% of the participants achieved PT stage 4, and one child (2%) reached the highest PT stage 5. This is discussed in relation to what is known regarding PT stages in typically developing children, as well as associations with language, memory, and non-verbal measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144005435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katarina L Haley, Jessica D Richardson, Tyson G Harmon, Peter Turkeltaub, Adam Jacks
{"title":"Phonemic simplification in apraxia of speech and aphasia with phonemic paraphasia.","authors":"Katarina L Haley, Jessica D Richardson, Tyson G Harmon, Peter Turkeltaub, Adam Jacks","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2498437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2498437","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>There are varied reports about the extent to which people with apraxia of speech (AOS) simplify the phonemic complexity of utterances they attempt to produce and whether the degree to which they do so might inform differential diagnosis relative to aphasia with phonemic paraphasia (APP). Our study purpose was to determine whether either or both diagnostic groups simplify the phonemic content for words they repeat during a typical motor speech evaluation.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>195 people with aphasia after stroke were assigned to four diagnostic groups based on quantitative metrics of core speech criteria for AOS and APP. In addition to the target groups, the sample was divided into a borderline group with equivocal feature combinations (BL) and a group with minimal sound production errors (MIN). Monosyllabic, disyllabic, and multisyllabic words were transcribed phonetically and scored for phonemic complexity. The ratio of produced complexity relative to target complexity - the word complexity measure (WCM) ratio - was compared across groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>According to the WCM ratio, participants in all four groups, including the group with minimal speech sound involvement, simplified more productions than they complicated. Those who produced the most speech sound errors also displayed greater phonemic simplification.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>People with stroke-induced aphasia sometimes produce words that are phonemic complications of targets, but more often they simplify the phonemic output. We conclude that phonemic simplification at the word level has limited value for differentiating clinically between AOS and APP. Future research should consider comparing alternative simplification measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143992323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphosyntactic and lexical features in 5;0-6;0 years old Persian-speaking children with a history of late-talking: A 3 years follow up.","authors":"Seyedeh Fatemeh Ebrahimian, Mozhgan Asadi, Masoomeh Salmani","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2496471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2496471","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This longitudinal study compared morphosyntactic and lexical skills in Persian-speaking children aged 5;0-6;0 with a history of late-talking (LT, n=28) and typically developing peers (TD, n=26). Participants, initially assessed at 30 months (31 LT, 32 TD), were matched for age and socioeconomic status. Language skills were evaluated using the Test of Language Development (TOLD), mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLUm), Persian developmental sentence scoring (PDSS), a<sup>2</sup> (Maas), number of total words (NTW), and number of different words (NDW). Results showed that 10 LT children improved (classified as improved LTs) but still scored below TD peers. Improved LTs outperformed unimproved LTs. TD children significantly surpassed both LT groups in morphosyntactic and lexical measures. Stepwise linear regression identified expressive vocabulary size (MCDI-II: Words) and NDW at 30 months as significant predictors of later MLUm and PDSS scores in the combined sample (LT+TD) at 5;0-6;0 years. Despite compensatory progress, LT children remained at the lower end of the normal range, underscoring the need for ongoing monitoring and early intervention during critical developmental periods. Smaller expressive vocabularies at 30 months correlated with persistent delays, highlighting the importance of targeted support for high-risk cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144023914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amy Smith, Anja Kuschmann, Eleanor Lawson, Maria Cairney, Joanne Cleland
{"title":"Instrumental articulatory techniques investigating lingual variability in typically developing children: A scoping review.","authors":"Amy Smith, Anja Kuschmann, Eleanor Lawson, Maria Cairney, Joanne Cleland","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2486626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2486626","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This scoping review was designed to provide an overview of instrumental articulatory techniques used to investigate lingual variability in typically developing children. Despite extensive research on phonological acquisition, the development of speech motor control in children is less understood. Kinematic studies in this area have focused on children under 10, but adolescents' speech and the attainment of adult-like motor control remains under-researched. This review includes studies using instrumental techniques such as Ultrasound Tongue Imaging (UTI), Electropalatography (EPG) and Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) to measure spatial and temporal articulatory features using a variety of metrics. Studies show greater articulatory variability in children compared to adults; however, inconsistencies in methodologies and participant samples limit the ability to synthesise findings effectively. Future research should focus on longitudinal studies spanning childhood and adolescence, using techniques that are easily incorporated into clinical practice. A detailed understanding of typical articulatory variability across different age ranges is crucial for identifying speech disorders and improving clinical interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144005438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seung-Yun Yang, Akiko Fuse, Diana Sidtis, Seung Nam Yang
{"title":"Production of different types of familiar expressions by individuals with left- and right-hemisphere damage across discourse elicitation tasks.","authors":"Seung-Yun Yang, Akiko Fuse, Diana Sidtis, Seung Nam Yang","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2485077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2485077","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to explore the production of familiar expressions (e.g. idioms, proverbs and pause fillers), including different subtypes, and their variation across different types of elicited discourse in individuals with aphasia due to left hemisphere damage (LHD) and those with right hemisphere damage (RHD) to healthy control (HCs). Twenty-nine individuals (12 with LHD, 8 with RHD and 9 hCs) provided elicited discourse samples during four tasks (free speech, picture description, story narrative and procedural tasks) from TalkBank (AphasiaBank and RHDBank). Familiar expressions were categorised into two broad types: nuanced (conveying emotional or attitudinal meaning) and non-nuanced (literal and speech-flow enhancing). Results showed that individuals with LHD produced more familiar expressions, especially nuanced ones, than those with RHD or HCs. A correlation was found between aphasia severity and the production of familiar expressions, with individuals who had more severe language impairments producing a higher proportion of familiar expressions in some tasks. No significant task differences in familiar expression production were observed among the groups. This study revealed that brain damage affects the production of familiar expressions, with individuals with LHD using them more frequently and in a more nuanced manner. In contrast, individuals with RHD had difficulty producing familiar expressions. Clinically, this underscores the importance of considering hemisphere-specific deficits when assessing and treating language impairments in individuals with brain damage, as therapies may need to be tailored to address the distinct challenges faced by individuals with LHD versus RHD.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143796839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usual and unusual phonological processes in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children.","authors":"Margaret Kehoe","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2475064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2475064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the phonological acquisition literature, a distinction is made between usual and unusual phonological processes. Usual processes are present in the speech of young children with typical development (TD), whereas unusual processes are infrequent. Studies, however, have documented unusual processes in the speech of bilingual children. This study examines the frequency of usual and unusual phonological processes in the speech of French-speaking monolingual and bilingual children with TD. Three existing datasets were analysed. Each dataset contained the speech productions of 40 children with a mean age of 2;5-2;6 (for a total number of 78 monolingual and 42 bilingual participants). Two datasets were obtained through picture-naming tasks; one dataset contained spontaneous speech samples. Results indicated that both sets of phonological processes were of low frequency across all children. Only two usual processes, <i>cluster reduction</i> and <i>palatal fronting</i>, were present in 10% or more children in all three datasets. Unusual processes were less frequent than typical processes, although two unusual processes, unusual cluster reduction and palatalisation of /s/ were also present in the speech of 10% or more children in one of the three datasets. There were few differences in the frequency of unusual processes in bilingual versus monolingual children. We provide a tentative list of usual versus unusual phonological processes in French, which may prove useful for clinicians when diagnosing speech sound disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differences in nasalance scores obtained with different Nasometer headsets.","authors":"Tim Bressmann, Blanche Hei Yung Tang","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2305118","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2305118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The goal of the present research study was to investigate possible differences in nasalance scores between different Nasometer headgears. Frequency response characteristics of microphone pairs in a Nasometer model 6200, a model 6450 and two model 6500 headsets were compared using long-term average spectra of white noise and multi-speaker babble signals. Prerecorded sound files from a male and a female speaker were used to record nasalance scores with the four Nasometer headsets and to calculate cumulative absolute differences within and between the headsets. The main outcome measures were the cumulative absolute differences between the decibel (dB) values in the frequency bins from 300 to 750 Hz for the nasal and oral channels of each microphone pair. Cumulative absolute differences between nasalance scores of repeated stimuli within and across Nasometer headsets were tabulated. Results showed that cumulative absolute differences for the frequency range 300-750 Hz were between 6.58 and 7.68 dB. Within headsets, 95.6% to 100% of measurements of all four Nasometer headsets were within 3 nasalance points, although test-retest differences of up to 6 nasalance points were found. Between headsets, 56.1% to 98.9% of measurements were within 3 nasalance points, with the single largest difference of 8 nasalance points. In conclusion, differences between repeated nasalance scores obtained with the same and different headsets were noted. Clinicians should allow a margin of error of ±6 to 8 nasalance points when interpreting scores from different Nasometer headsets.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"504-514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139724713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of the phonological loop and the visual sketchpad in speechreading of students with hearing loss in China.","authors":"Huina Gong, Ling Jia, Qin Peng, Ran Xiao, Jialu Fan, Jianghua Lei, Liang Chen","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2464539","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2464539","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study examined the role of two slave systems of working memory (WM), the phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad, in the speechreading performance of Chinese students with hearing loss (HL). It was motivated by the question whether the visual speech information is processed in the phonological loop as linguistic information or as visuospatial information in visuospatial sketchpad. Seventy-three young adults with HL completed Chinese speech-reading tests (targeting monosyllabic words, disyllabic words, and sentences), the WM test batteries, and a cognitive processing speed test. The hierarchical regression analyses showed that the articulatory rehearsal process and phonological store were the most important predictors of all of the components of WM for speechreading. By contrast, performance on visual spatial working memory tasks was not significantly correlated with speechreading performance. These results demonstrated that speechreading in Chinese students with HL relies more on the efficiency of high-level phonological storing and articulatory rehearsal in the phonological loop, rather than the shallow processing of pure visual features in the visuospatial sketchpad.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"412-426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143434215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dysfluency in primary progressive aphasia: Temporal speech parameters.","authors":"Lorraine Baqué, María-Jesús Machuca","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2378345","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2378345","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analysing spontaneous speech in individuals experiencing fluency difficulties holds potential for diagnosing speech and language disorders, including Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). Dysfluency in the spontaneous speech of patients with PPA has mostly been described in terms of abnormal pausing behaviour, but the temporal features related to speech have drawn little attention. This study compares speech-related fluency parameters in the three main variants of PPA and in typical speech. Forty-three adults participated in this research, thirteen with the logopenic variant of PPA (lvPPA), ten with the non-fluent variant (nfvPPA), nine with the semantic variant (svPPA), and eleven who were healthy age-matched adults. Participants' fluency was assessed through a picture description task from which 42 parameters were computed including syllable duration, speaking pace, the duration of speech chunks (i.e. interpausal units, IPU), and the number of linguistic units per IPU and per second. The results showed that each PPA variant exhibited abnormal speech characteristics reflecting various underlying factors, from motor speech deficits to higher-level issues. Out of the 42 parameters considered, 37 proved useful for characterising dysfluency in the three main PPA variants and 35 in distinguishing among them. Therefore, taking into account not only pausing behaviour but also temporal speech parameters can provide a fuller understanding of dysfluency in PPA. However, no single parameter by itself sufficed to distinguish one PPA group from the other two, further evidence that dysfluency is not dichotomous but rather multidimensional, and that complementary multiparametric analyses are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"440-473"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}