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- Title
The Effects of Speech Task on Lexical Stress in Parkinson’s Disease.
- Authors
Exner, Andrew H.; Francis, Alexander L.; MacPherson, Megan K.; Darling-White, Meghan; Huber, Jessica E.
- Abstract
Purpose: Hypokinetic dysarthria associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by dysprosody, yet the literature is mixed with respect to how dysprosody affects the ability to mark lexical stress, possibly due to differences in speech tasks used to assess lexical stress. The purpose of this study was to compare how people with and without PD modulate acoustic dimensions of lexical stress—fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration—to mark lexical stress across three different speech tasks. Method: Twelve individuals with mild-to-moderate idiopathic PD and 12 age- and sex-matched older adult controls completed three speech tasks: picture description, word production in isolation, and word production in lists. Outcome measures were the fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration of the vocalic segments of two trochees (initial stress) and two iambs (final stress) spoken in all three tasks. Results: There were very few group differences. Both groups marked trochees by modulating intensity and fundamental frequency and iambs by modulating duration. Task had a significant impact on the stress patterns used by both groups. Stress patterns were most differentiated in words produced in isolation and least differentiated in lists of words. Conclusions: People with PD did not demonstrate impairments in the production of lexical stress, suggesting that dysprosody associated with PD does not impact all types of prosody in the same way. However, there were reduced distinctions in stress marking that were more apparent in trochees than iambs. In addition, the task used to assess prosody has a significant effect on all acoustic measures. Future research should focus on the use of connected speech tasks to obtain more generalizable measures of prosody in PD.
- Subjects
STATISTICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL aspects of speech; PHONOLOGICAL awareness; CONFIDENCE intervals; TASK performance; SPEECH evaluation; CASE-control method; COMPARATIVE studies; PARKINSON'S disease; RESEARCH funding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; REPEATED measures design; DATA analysis; DATA analysis software
- Publication
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 2, p506
- ISSN
1058-0360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00185