Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Contributors xiii
5. Part 1 - Methodology
6. 1. Developments in the theoretical understanding of speech and its disorders 1
7. 2. Current developments in instrumentation for studying supraglottal structures 27
8. 3. Current developments in transcription 51
9. 4. Perceptual and Acoustic methods in the evaluation of dysarthric speech 91
10. Part 2 - Case Studies
11. 5. Types of deviant sibilant production in a group of school-aged children, and their response to treatment using EPG 115
12. 6. An unusual pattern of speech production in a child with acquired epileptic aphasia 151
13. 7. The clinical assessment of Finnish fluency 171
14. 8. Acoustic analysis as an aid to the transcription of an example of disfluent speech 197
15. 9. Cepstra of normal and pathological voices in correlation to acoustical, aerodynamic and perceptual data 217
16. 10. Effects of age and smoking on the female voice 227
17. 11. Isovowel lines for the evaluation of foreign accent difficulties 237
18. Index 249