How do persons with apraxia of speech deal with morphological stress in Spanish? A preliminary study

Baqué, Lorraine

doi:10.1080/02699206.2019.1622155

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“…Consequently, they recommend, at the end of the study, the use a treatment approach which relies formally on related training syllables in the reacquisition of complex target syllables. Similarly, [22] tried to determine whether persons with AOS are able to make the intended stress pattern identifiable and, if so, to determine which acoustic cues they use to avoid the 'equal stress' phenomenon. The study yielded that, for each parameter considered (duration, intensity, fundamental frequency), apraxic participants' productions differed from those of controls to varying degrees depending on the task.…”

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“…The results showed that a substantial increase in spelling achievement for both the closed syllable spelling test and the silent syllable spelling test. Other studies with positives views towards the syllabary method include [16,17,18,19,20,21,22] Latifa Belfakir, Ph.D., has been working as a university professor for 19 years. Her major fields of interests, as a researcher, are technology and language teaching and Leadership studies.…”

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The Impact and Effectiveness of the Syllablebased Reading Approach on Moroccan Pupils’ Reading Competency

Binaoui¹,

Moubtassime²,

Belfakir³

2023

IJMECS

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Morocco has recently introduced the syllable-based reading approach (SbA) in Arabic and French Curricula. Thus, this study aimed at measuring the impact and effectiveness of said approach on Moroccan pupils' Arabic reading competency as well as how teachers approach it based on the hermeneutic phenomenology theoretical framework. A quantitative survey questionnaire was distributed to 227 1 st and 2 nd grade teachers from all twelve regions of Morocco. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze data through descriptive statistics and statistical hypothesis testing. The results showed that most Moroccan teachers advocate the use of the SbA as it positively impacts Arabic reading competency. They have, also, pointed out that time and demanding lesson planning are some of the SbA's drawbacks. Also, it was found that there are no differences in SbA's teaching practices and perceptions between female and male teachers except for the practice of assigning reading homework as female teachers tend to assign more reading homework. The results of the study are of significant importance to the MENA region as it evaluates field work regarding SbA.

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The Impact and Effectiveness of the Syllablebased Reading Approach on Moroccan Pupils’ Reading Competency

Binaoui¹,

Moubtassime²,

Belfakir³

2023

IJMECS

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Normative Values for Word Syllable Duration With Interpretation in a Large Sample of Stroke Survivors With Aphasia

Haley,

Jacks,

Kim

et al. 2023

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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Purpose: Slow speech rate and abnormal temporal prosody are primary diagnostic criteria for differentiating between people with aphasia who do and do not have apraxia of speech. We sought to identify appropriate cutoff values for abnormal word syllable duration (WSD) in a word repetition task, interpret them relative to a data set of people with chronic aphasia, and evaluate the extent to which manually derived measures could be approximated through an automated process that relied on commercial speech recognition technology. Method: Fifty neurotypical participants produced 49 multisyllabic words during a repetition task. Audio recordings were submitted to an automated speech recognition (ASR) service (IBM Watson) to measure word duration and generate an orthographic transcription. The transcribed words were compared to a lexical database, and the number of syllables was identified. Automatic and manual measures were compared for 50% of the sample. Results were interpreted relative to WSD scores from an existing data set of 195 people with mostly chronic aphasia. Results: ASR correctly identified 83% of target words and 98% of target syllable counts. Automated word duration calculations were longer than manual measures due to imprecise cursor placement. Upon applying regression coefficients to the automated measures and examining the frequency distributions for both manual and estimated measures, a WSD of 303–316 ms was found to indicate longer-than-normal performance (corresponding to the 95th percentile). With this cutoff, 40%–45% of participants with aphasia in our comparison sample had an abnormally long WSD. Conclusions: We recommend using a rounded WSD cutoff score between 303 and 316 ms for manual measures. Future research will focus on customizing automated WSD methods to speech samples from people with aphasia, identifying target words that maximize production and measurement reliability, and developing WSD standard scores based on a large participant sample with and without aphasia.

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How do persons with apraxia of speech deal with morphological stress in Spanish? A preliminary study

Cited by 2 publications

References 74 publications

The Impact and Effectiveness of the Syllablebased Reading Approach on Moroccan Pupils’ Reading Competency

The Impact and Effectiveness of the Syllablebased Reading Approach on Moroccan Pupils’ Reading Competency

Normative Values for Word Syllable Duration With Interpretation in a Large Sample of Stroke Survivors With Aphasia

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