Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Scaling procedures for the measurement of speech intelligibility 11
5. 2. An application of structural linguistics to intelligibility measurement of impaired speakers of English 35
6. 3. Acoustic and perceptual approaches to the study of intelligibility 67
7. 4. The role of phonation in speech intelligibility 119
8. 5. The intelligibility of English vowels spoken by British and Dutch talkers 157
9. 6. Speech intelligibility in the hearing impaired 233
10. 7. Intelligibility measurement as a tool in the clinical management of dysarthric speakers 265
11. 8. EPG-based description of apraxic speech errors 287
12. 9. Prospects for neurophysiology approaches to the study of speech intelligibility 329
13. Index 363