Voice onset time production in speakers with Alzheimer's disease

    Authors

    J. Baker; J. Ryalls; A. Brice;J. Whiteside

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Clin. Linguist. Phon.

    Keywords

    voice onset time; Alzheimer's disease; dementia; speech production; aging; DEFICITS; APHASIA; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Linguistics; Rehabilitation

    Abstract

    In the present study, voice onset time (VOT) measurements were compared between a group of individuals with moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) and a group of healthy age- and gender-matched peers. Participants read a list of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, which included the six stop consonants. The VOT measurements were made from oscillographic displays obtained from the Brown Laboratory Interactive Speech System (BLISS) implemented on an IBM-compatible computer. VOT measures for the participants' six stop consonant productions were subjected to statistical analysis. The results indicated that VOT values in speakers with Alzheimer's disease were not statistically different from those for the normal control speakers.

    Journal Title

    Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

    Volume

    21

    Issue/Number

    11-12

    Publication Date

    1-1-2007

    Document Type

    Article; Proceedings Paper

    Language

    English

    First Page

    859

    Last Page

    867

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000251447800003

    ISSN

    0269-9206

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