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Acoustics
Kenta Watanabe, Ramesh Srinivasan, Virginia M. Richards
Summary: The effects of sound segregation cues on sensitivity to intensity increments were examined. Results showed that for targets less intense than nontargets, thresholds improved when the targets and nontargets had unique frequency regions.
JASA EXPRESS LETTERS
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Zoe L. Owrutsky, John Peacock, Daniel J. Tollin
Summary: Objective assessment of spatial and binaural hearing deficits remains challenging in clinical practice. This study proposes a new method to improve the measurement of the binaural interaction component (BIC) in auditory brainstem response (ABR) by using more optimal stimuli. The findings suggest that level-specific chirp stimuli can enhance BIC detectability and reduce variability in human BIC measurements.
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Acoustics
Bocheng Ji, Yu Lan, Gang Qiao, Mindi Wang
Summary: This paper focuses on the ultra-wideband design of Tonpilz transducers, addressing key issues such as activation of high-order resonances, elimination of response notches, and control of resonance response values. By optimizing variables such as the number, position, length, and applied voltage of the drive-stack, a design principle for achieving an ultra-wideband is proposed. Through simulated annealing initial optimization and finite element re-optimization, an ultra-wideband covering the frequency range of 19.5-90 kHz is obtained successfully.
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2023)
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Acoustics
Santan Kumar, Richa Kumari, Abhishek Kumar Singh
Summary: This study investigates the propagation of Love wave in a flexoelectric piezoelectric-viscoelastic stratum imperfectly bonded to a piezoelectric-viscoelastic substrate. The impact of imperfect interfaces is studied by considering non-traditional boundary conditions for two different types of imperfect interfaces. Numerical calculations reveal the influence of various factors on the phase velocity and attenuation coefficient of Love wave, which are depicted through graphs.
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Haley J. Warner, Ravi Shroff, Arianna Zuanazzi, Richard M. Arenas, Eric S. Jackson
Summary: This study investigates the impact of linguistic features on the predictability of stuttering events during spontaneous speech. The results suggest that linguistic features previously found to predict stuttering during reading tasks also predict stuttering during spontaneous speech.
JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
(2023)
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Acoustics
Jeremy Steffman, Megha Sundara
Summary: This study evaluates the flexibility of adults' perception of probabilistic phonotactic probabilities and finds that listeners can dynamically update probabilities and apply them to perceive ambiguous acoustic information. These effects can modify long-term probability effects influenced by native language experience.
JASA EXPRESS LETTERS
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Kaile Zhang, Ran Tao, Gang Peng
Summary: Music training experience may facilitate tonal language speakers in accommodating speech variability in lexical tones, particularly at the cortical level where musicians showed an advantage.
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Mark Onslow, Robyn Lowe, Suzana Jelcic Jaksic, Ann Packman, Ellen Kelly, Verity MacMillan, Gabrielle Hodes
Summary: This paper documents the contents of the second module of the Fifth Croatia Stuttering Symposium of 2022, which focused on the natural recovery of early stuttering in children and whether clinicians can predict the recovery without treatment.
JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Huanzhi Wan, Wenjing Wang, Jingchun Liu, Yunlong Zhang, Bingqian Yang, Rongkai Hua, Huidong Chen, Shiming Chen, Qingquan Hua
Summary: Aging inevitably leads to hearing loss, which is associated with psychosocial problems and cognitive decline in the elderly. A study found that the thresholds of auditory brainstem responses and distortion-product otoacoustic emissions were increased in aged rats compared to young rats. The study also identified different metabolites in the cochlea related to AHL and demonstrated the beneficial effects of purine supplementation in a mimetic model.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
William Choi, Ming Ming Chiu
Summary: This study examined the perception of Cantonese tones by English listeners using tone discrimination and sequence recall tasks. The results showed that English listeners had asymmetrical patterns of discrimination but consistent performance in sequence recall. The findings supported the predictions of the Perceptual Assimilation Model for Suprasegmentals (PAM-S) in tone discrimination, but not in sequence recall. This suggests that PAM-S is applicable to simple discrimination tasks but not to abstract phonological processing with high memory load.
LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Nicholas Henriksen, Shayna Greenley, Amber Galvano
Summary: This paper investigates the variable realization of the voiced alveolar-trill phoneme /r/ in Spanish through acoustic analysis. The results show substantial inter-speaker variation, with factors such as consonantal lenition and trill articulation contributing to the variation. Importantly, speaker sex displays the strongest effect among all predictors, highlighting the role of sociolinguistic factors in /r/ production.
LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, Joanna Kowalik, Anna Pekacz
Summary: This study investigates if the tasks participants perform when reading irony in their foreign language affect the efficiency of irony comprehension. The results indicate that the efficiency of irony comprehension is differently modified by the tasks.
LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
(2023)
Correction
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
J. B. Boster
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
A. Tovar, S. J. Perry, E. Munoz, C. Painous, P. Santacruz, J. Ruiz-Idiago, C. Mareca, E. Pomarol-Clotet, W. Hinzen
Summary: The role of the basal ganglia in neural language models and its effects on patients with Huntington's disease were investigated. The study found that patients with HD had impairments in judging the acceptability of sentences with illicit phrasal movement, indicating a loss of cognitive control over phrase-structural hierarchies.
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Lauren E. Zaylskie, Elizabeth E. Biggs, Kaitlyn J. Minchin, Zoe K. Abel
Summary: This qualitative interview study explored the perspectives of nurses on care and support for children who use or would benefit from aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in the pediatric ICU. Findings revealed three main themes: caring for the whole child, needing support from others and moving between roles, and working with available resources and demands. The study emphasized the importance of holistic care and the need for greater capacity for promoting effective communication in children.
AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION
(2023)
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Acoustics
Harim Kwon, Ioana Chitoran
Summary: This study investigates the influence of native timing patterns on nonnative speech perception. It finds that Georgian listeners experience illusory clusters when hearing French speech, which suggests that the timing pattern may constitute language-specific knowledge and affect perceptual assimilation patterns in nonnative speech perception.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Christine Mooshammer, Dominique Bobeck, Henrik Hornecker, Kieran Meinhardt, Olga Olina, Marie Christin Walch, Qiang Xia
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between the perception of fictional languages and their sound structure. The results show that Klingon and Dothraki, two fictional languages, are rated as more unpleasant, evil, and aggressive, compared to the Elvish languages, Sindarin and Quenya. This rating difference can be predicted by certain characteristics of the sound structure.
LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
(2023)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Laura Colantoni, Alexei Kochetov, Jeffrey Steele
Summary: This study investigates the acquisition of English-/l/ allophony by native French and Spanish speakers. The results show that while both groups can acquire the allophonic pattern, their phonetic implementation differs from native speakers, particularly in codas. French-speaking learners perform better than Spanish-speaking learners, with more target-like contact reduction in codas and higher F2 values. The study also reveals L1-based patterns of positional reduction of the tongue tip and dorsum gestures. The findings contribute to our understanding of L2 speech and suggest avenues for future research.
LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
(2023)
Review
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Marina Bernardes, Claudiney Costa, Hugo Ramos, Rodolfo Almeida, Debora Gobbo, Natalia Carasek, Fayez Bahmad, Pauliana Lamounier
Summary: This study compared the development of auditory and speech skills in children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) who underwent cochlear implantation with children with sensorineural hearing loss associated with other causes. The systematic review and meta-analysis showed that there was no significant difference in speech performance after 1 year of cochlear implant placement between the two groups.
AUDIOLOGY AND NEUROTOLOGY
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Jenna Charlton, Melanie Greaux, Amit Kulkarni, Melanie Dornstauder, James Law
Summary: Telehealth for paediatric speech and language therapy has become a prominent mode of service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. The existing evidence suggests promising outcomes of telehealth compared to face-to-face delivery, but there are still critical aspects that need to be addressed, such as affordability and equity of services. Additionally, the implementation of telehealth is influenced by various contextual factors.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
(2023)
