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Application of team-based learning to support knowledge acquisition and retention of craniofacial content in a graduate speech-language pathology course: A pilot study
Abstract
This study examined graduate student confidence, knowledge retention, and perceptions of a craniofacial disorders course delivered using team-based learning (TBL). Seventeen graduate students from a single class participated. Confidence ...
Publication · November 06, 2026
Effects of dialect and age on the production of voiced stop closures in running speech
Abstract
Sociophonetic literature investigating consonantal variation in American English has revealed that the production of voiced stop closures in the intersonorant position differs systematically by region. This indicates that sociocultural ...
Publication · November 06, 2026
Regional dialect effects on the perception of gender in children’s voices
Publication · November 06, 2026
Within-category implementation of stop consonant voicing in American English-speaking children
Publication · November 06, 2026
Comparison of automated and manual measures of speaking rate in individuals with dysarthria
Abstract
Speech patterns in speakers with dysarthria exhibit a broad range of prosodic and articulatory variations, potentially posing a significant challenge for automated speech recognition systems. This study seeks to address a gap in the lite...
Publication · November 06, 2026
Quantitative assessment of English accent variation: Levenshtein distance and perceptual identification
Abstract
This is a perceptual study with a basis in acoustic phonetics. It investigates the extent to which accents of English can be quantified by the Levenshtein distance (LD), a string metric. LD defines string similarity by the minimum number...
Publication · November 06, 2026
Validating automated speech timing methods across sentence, paragraph, and monologue tasks
Abstract
Precise measurement of speech timing is critical for assessing motor speech disorders such as dysarthria. Speaking and articulation rates are common metrics, but manual analysis is time-consuming and impractical clinically [1,2]. Timing ...
Publication · November 06, 2026
Motor Speech Disorders Laboratory
Investigated speech outcomes in Parkinson’s disease following STN-DBS, focusing on effects of subthalamic modulation on speech production.
Examined variation in speaking rate across measurement methods, speech tasks, and clinical groups.
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Project · November 06, 2026
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