Speech sound disorder (SSD) encompasses a group of communication disorders in which children have persistent difficulty articulating words or sounds correctly. Speech sound production requires both ...

Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects produced a ...

UW Assistant Professor Breanna Krueger works with Rue Steidley, age 7, as a computer software program plays fake words over the speaker. Steidley must select whether the word sounds like a word meant ...

It’s a question that has plagued English speakers for many decades: “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” To help with this, Greenwell, a College of Health and Human ...

Student 1 is an unintelligible female speaker with a very limited phonetic repertoire, severe pitch and loudness problems and little residual hearing. During 12+ years of speech therapy prior to entry ...

Speech intelligibility refers to how well someone understands a verbal message. Usually, this measure is taken from assessment conducted in a controlled or quiet environment. However, in functional ...

Vol. 83, No. 2, Special Issue on Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Language (April 2011), pp. 191-212 (22 pages) Research into speech perception by nonhuman animals can be ...

Speech sound disorder (SSD) encompasses a group of communication disorders in which children have persistent difficulty articulating words or sounds correctly. Speech sound production requires both ...