Articulation rate: Effects of age, fluency, and syntactic structure

Authors

Cecile McKee, University of Arizona
Dana McDaniel PhD, University of Southern MaineFollow
Merrill F. Garrett, University of Arizona
Cheri Lozoraitis, University of Southern Maine
Matthew S. Mutterperl, University of Arizona

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2013

Publication Title

Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología

Abstract

We report basic findings on articulation rate effects derived from experimental research on children's sentence planning. The experiments were designed to evaluate production processes with attention to syntactic variables while controlling for lexical and phonological variables. Articulatory rate measures showed (1) rates differed for children (3–8.11) and adults, with adult rates significantly faster than child rates; (2) the effects of fluent and dysfluent host utterances on fluent substrings differed for adults and children; (3) rate patterns for relative clause and conjoined clause utterances differed, both from each other and across age group.

Comments

Copyright © 2013 AELFA. Published by Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.

Recommended Citation

McKee, Cecile; McDaniel, Dana PhD; Garrett, Merrill F.; Lozoraitis, Cheri; and Mutterperl, Matthew S., "Articulation rate: Effects of age, fluency, and syntactic structure" (2013). Faculty Publications. 59.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/linguistics-papers/59