Speech Rate and Fluency in Children and Adolescents

Martins, Isabel Pavão; Vieira, R Xavier; Loureiro, Clara; Santos, Miguel

doi:10.1080/09297040600837370

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“…This was documented in various languages including Hebrew (Folha & de Felicio, 2009;Martins, Vieira, Loureiro & Santos, 2007;Walsh & Smith, 2002;Amir & Grinfeld, 2011). This increase in rate is attributed to the gradual maturation of speech oral-motor neuro-muscular mechanism, as well as the well-documented development in language skills and capacities (Kent, 1976;Amir & Grinfeld, 2011;Walsh & Smith, 2002).…”

Section: Effect Of Gender and Age On Speaking Ratementioning

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Speaking Rate among Professional Radio Newscasters: Hebrew Speakers

Finkelstein¹,

Amir²

2013

Studies in Media and Communication

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This is a preliminary and exploratory study aimed to examine and quantify speaking and articulation rate among professional Hebrew speaking radio newscasters. Nineteen radio newscasters (ten men and nine women) were digitally recorded during live public broadcasts. The newscasters were assigned to two age-groups: "younger" (under 30 years) and "older" (over 58 years). All recordings were first transcribed and then analyzed acoustically to measure overall speaking rate, speaking rate within-item, articulation rate, pause duration and percentage of disfluency. The average speaking rate obtained for the entire group was 5.90 Syllable-per-Second, and average articulation rate was 6.42. No differences were found between men and women for any of the observed measures, and no age-group differences were found. This study provides preliminary rate data for a reading task, performed by Hebrew speaking professional newscasters. It also suggests that within this professional population of adult speakers, rate and fluency measures are not affected by gender or age.

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Section: Effect Of Gender and Age On Speaking Ratementioning

confidence: 97%

Speaking Rate among Professional Radio Newscasters: Hebrew Speakers

Finkelstein¹,

Amir²

2013

Studies in Media and Communication

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“…Specifically, speaking-as well as articulation-rate have been shown to increase from early childhood to adulthood in various languages [11,[29][30][31]. This increase in rate was attributed primarily to biological factors, i.e.…”

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Speaking Rate among Adult Hebrew Speakers: A Preliminary Observation

Amir

2016

Ann Behav Sci

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Background: Speaking rate is an important basic temporal characteristic of speech, essential for research as well as clinical applications. Accordingly, it has become a common measure in studies conducted in various fields, such as speech science, speech pathology, behavioral psychology, neuropsychology and emotions. Yet, normative speaking rate data, which are language specific, are still required. This study was aimed to provide preliminary data on speaking-rate and articulation-rate among Hebrew speaking adults, and to examine differences between genders and age-groups.

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“…Foram utilizadas as letras F, A e M em função da transparência ortográfica das palavras que iniciam com a letra M (Martins, Vieira, Loureiro, & Santos, 2007) e pela maior ocorrência de palavras começadas pela letra M no léxico da língua portuguesa, em comparação à letra S, mais comum em estudos na língua inglesa (Viaro & Guimarães-Filho, 2007). Na administração da FVF, os examinandos foram instruídos a gerar o maior número possível de palavras iniciadas com as letras citadas, excluindo nomes próprios e a mesma palavra com terminações diferentes.…”

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Evidências de validade dos escores estratégicos na tarefa de fluência verbal infantil

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RESUMOOs escores estratégicos na tarefa de fluência verbal fonológica (FVF) são utilizados na avaliação das funções executivas e linguísticas de crianças, e dois métodos para pontuação são empregados: valor bruto (VB) e taxas (TX). Existem poucas evidências de sua validade. Este trabalho objetivou descrever as evidências de validade de VB e TX, considerando o modelo de busca estratégica na FVF. Administrou-se a FVF em 106 crianças saudáveis de nove a 12 anos. Nas análises de regressão stepwise (VB), os três escores estratégicos foram preditores significativos do número total de emissões. No TX, apenas a taxa do tamanho médio de agrupamentos foi preditora. Nas análises de componente principal, VB gerou dois fatores (organização e flexibilidade); enquanto TX, apenas um fator bipolar (organização). Concluiu-se que VB mostrou mais evidências de validade haja vista o modelo multifatorial de busca estratégica, que pressupõe habilidades executivas de organização e flexibilidade. Palavras-chave: crianças; psicometria; função executiva; neuropsicologia. ABSTRACT -Validity evidence for strategic scores on Verbal Fluency tasks in childhoodStrategic scores on phonological verbal fluency (PVF) tasks are used in the evaluation of executive and language skills of children, and two methods of scoring are employed: raw scores (RS) and rates (R). There is little evidence of validity for each. This paper aimed to describe the validity evidences of GV and R considering the strategic search model in PVF. The PVF tasks were administered in 106 healthy children of nine to 12 years old. In stepwise regression analysis (GV), the three strategic scores were significant predictors of total emissions. In R, only the mean cluster size was predictive. In principal component analysis, GV generated two factors (organization and flexibility); while R, only generated one bipolar factor (organization). In conclusion, GV showed more evidence of validity considering the multifactorial model of strategic search, which assumes executive organization skills and flexibility. Keywords: children; psychometrics; executive function; neuropsychology. RESUMEN -Evidencia de validez de puntaje estratégico en la tarea de Fluencia Verbal infantilLos puntajes estratégicos en la tarea de fluidez verbal fonológica (FVF), se utilizan en la evaluación de habilidades ejecutivas y lingüísticas de los niños, y se evalúan teniendo en cuenta el valor bruto (VB) y tasa (TX). Hay pocas evidencias de validez para cada uno. Este documento tiene como objetivo describir dicha validez, teniendo en cuenta el modelo de búsqueda estratégica en FVF. Se les administró la FVF a 106 niños saludables de nueve a 12 años. En el análisis de regresión por pasos (VB), los tres puntajes estratégicos son predictores significativos de las emisiones totales. En TX, solo el tamaño medio de las agrupaciones fue predictivo. En el análisis de componentes principales VB generó dos factores (organización y flexibilidad), mientras que TX, solo uno bipolar (organización). Concluimos que VB mostró más ev...

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Speech Rate and Fluency in Children and Adolescents

Cited by 41 publications

References 40 publications

Speaking Rate among Professional Radio Newscasters: Hebrew Speakers

Speaking Rate among Professional Radio Newscasters: Hebrew Speakers

Speaking Rate among Adult Hebrew Speakers: A Preliminary Observation

Evidências de validade dos escores estratégicos na tarefa de fluência verbal infantil

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