Speech production: Motor control, brain research, and fluency disorders.

CONTENTS


List of contributors XI

Preface XIX

  1. Speech production: Motor control, brain research and fluency disorders. An introduction
    Wouter Hulstijn, Pascal H.H.M. Van Lieshout and Herman F.M. Peters 1

PART A


Models in Speech Production

  1. Speech motor models and developments in neurophysiological science: New perspectives
    Raymond D. Kent 13
  2. A neuromotor perspective on speech production
    Vincent L. Gracco 37
  3. The gestural phonology model
    Catharine P. Browman and L. Goldstein 57
  4. Word form generation in language production
    Antje S. Meyer 73
  5. Stuttering and misguided learning of articulation and phonation, or why it is extremely difficult to measure the physical properties of limbs
    Karl Th. Kalveram and Ulrich Natke 89
  6. Functional components of the motor system: An approach to understanding the mechanisms of speech disfluency
    Michael D. McClean 99
  7. Principles of human brain organization related to lateralization of language and speech motor functions in normal speakers and stutterers
    William G. Webster 119

PART B


Motor control in speech production and fluency disorders

  1. Dynamic interactions of factors that impact speech motor stability in children and adults
    Anne Smith 143
  2. Spatial and temporal variability in obstruent gestural specification by stutterers and controls: Comparisons across sessions
    Peter J. Alfonso and Pascal H.H.M. van Lieshout 151
  3. Higher and lower order influences on the stability of the dynamic coupling between articulators Pascal H.H.M. van Lieshout,
    Wouter Hulstijn, Peter J. Alfonso and Herman F.M. Peters 161
  4. Stuttering and articulator sequencing: Intrinsic and extrinsic timing perspectives
    David Ward 171
  5. Analysis of lips and jaw multi-peaked velocity curve profiles in fluent speech by stutterers and nonstutterers
    Claudio Zmarich and Emanuela M. Caldognetto 177
  6. Gesture mirrors speech motor control in stutterers
    Rachel I. Mayberry and Rosalee C. Shenker 183
  7. Mechanical perturbation of the jaw during speech in stutterers and nonstutterers
    Anne Bauer, Lutz Jäncke and Karl-Theodor Kalveram 191
  8. Is stuttering caused by failing neuromuscular force control?
    Marc Grosjean, Gerard P. van Galen, Peter de Jong, Pascal H.H.M. van Lieshout and Wouter Hulstijn 197
  9. A comparison of normals' and aphasics´ ability to plan respiratory activity in overt and covert speech
    Philip Hoole and Wolfram Ziegler 205
  10. Applications of motor learning theory to stuttering research
    Anthony J. Caruso and Ludo Max 213
  11. Speech production learning in adults with chronic developmental stuttering
    Christy L. Ludlow, Kathleen Siren and Mary Zikria 221

PART C


Brain research in speech production and fluency disorders

  1. Noninvasive brain imaging in speech motor control and stuttering: choices and challenges
    Judith L. Lauter 233
  2. Multi-perspective approaches to the cortical representation of speech perception and production: Electrical cortical stimulation and electrical cortical recording
    Barry Gordon, Dana Boatman, Nathan E. Crone and Ronald P. Lesser 259
  3. PET research in language production
    Peter Indefrey 269
  4. A typical lateralization of hemispheral activity in developmental stuttering: An H215O positron emission tomography study
    A.R. Braun, M. Varga, S. Stager, G. Schulz, S. Selbie, J.M. Maisog, R.E. Carson and C.L. Ludlow 279
  5. An H2O15 positron emission tomography (PET) study on adults who stutter: Findings and implications
    Roger J. Ingham, Peter T. Fox and Janis Costello Ingham 293
  6. A positron emission tomography investigation of post-treatment brain activation in stutterers
    Robert M. Kroll, Luc F. De Nil, S. Kapur and S. Houle 307
  7. PET scan evidence of parallel cerebral systems related to treatment effects
    Glyndon Riley, Joseph C. Wu and Gerald Maguire 321
  8. PET scan evidence of parallel cerebral systems related to treatment effects: FDG and FDOPA pet scan findings
    Joseph C. Wu, Glyndon Riley, Gerald Maguire, Ahmad Najafi and Cheuk Tang 329
  9. Neurophysiologic and behavioral evidence for a fluency-generating system
    Ben C. Watson and Frances J. Freeman 341
  10. The electrophysiology of speaking: Possibilities of event-related potential research on speech production
    Peter Hagoort and Miranda van Turennout 351
  11. Event-related cortical potentials preceding phonation in stutterers and normal speakers: A preliminary report
    Lawrence F. Molt 363
  12. A double-blind trial of pimozide and paroxetine for stuttering
    Sheila Stager, Karim Calis, Dale Grothe, Meir Bloch, Nannette Turcasso, Christy Ludlow and Allen Braun 371
  13. PET scan evidence of parallel cerebral systems related to treatment effects: effects of risperidone in the treatment of stuttering
    Gerald A. Maguire, Glyndon D. Riley, Joseph C. Wu, David L.Franklin and Steven Potkin 379

PART D


Methods and measurements in pathological speech

  1. The concept of subperceptual stuttering: Analysis and investigation
    Anne K. Cordes and Roger J. Ingham 385
  2. Automatic stuttering frequency counts
    Peter Howell, Stevie Sackin, Kazan Glenn and James Au-Yeung 395
  3. The measurement of physiologic and acoustic correlates of voice onset abruptness
    Klaas Bakker, Roger Ingham and Ron Netsell 405
  4. On-off voicing adjustments in stutterers and normal speakers
    George Wieneke and Peggy Janssen 413
  5. Stuttering: Where and whys of terminations of attempts during part-word repetition
    Nagalapura S. Viswanath and David B. Rosenfield 419
  6. The electroglottographic signal as a device for stuttering evaluation
    Ulrich Natke, Karl Th. Kalveram and Lutz Jäncke 429
  7. Simultaneous analysis of lip, jaw and tongue movements with an integrated optical tracking and EPG system
    Emanuela M. Caldognetto, Claudio Zmarich, Francesca Bettini and Giancarlo Ferrigno 439
  8. Verbal delayed reactions. A study of prefrontal functional impairments in neuropsychiatric patients
    Paolo Pinelli 445
  9. Functionality indexes for the evaluation of speech production: A study in normal subjects
    Roberto Colombo, Gianluca Spinatonda, Roberto Conti, Carlo Pasetti, Paolo Pinelli and Giuseppe Minuco 451
  10. Chronometry of the brain processes during speech production: A quantitative test to monitor exposition to neurotoxic solvents
    Gianluca Spinatonda, Edda M.Capodaglio, Roberto Colombo, Roberto Conti, Marcello Imbriani, Paolo Pinelli, Carlo Pasetti and Giuseppe Minuco 457
  11. En route to a speech motor test: A first halt
    Pascal H.H.M. van Lieshout, Herman F.M. Peters, and Annette J. Bakker 463
  12. Linguistic stress and the rhythm effect in stuttering
    Ann Packman, Mark Onslow and Janis van Doorn 473
  13. Prosodic disturbances in stuttering adults
    Lutz Jäncke, Anne Bauer and Karl-Theodor Kalveram 479
  14. Instructing stutterers to sing: Effect on stuttering frequency at two speaking rates
    Helen Glover, Joseph Kalinowski, Andrew Stuart and Michael Rastatter 487
  15. On the mechanisms of speech monitoring
    Albert Postma 495
  16. Mental effort and speech fluency
    Hans-Georg Bosshardt 503
  17. The effects of formal and casual interview styles on stuttering incidence
    Peter Howell, Anuparma Kapoor and Lena Rustin 515
  18. Evaluating speech quality before and after stuttering therapy
    Marie-Christine Franken, Renée van Bezooijen and Louis Boves 521

PART E


Developmental aspects of speech production and fluency disorders

  1. Neuronal group selection and emergent orofacial motor control: Towards a unifying theory of speech development
    Steven M. Barlow, Don Finan and Rich Andreatta 529
  2. Speaking rate and speech motor control: Theoretical considerations and empirical data
  3. Kelly D. Hall and Ehud Yairi 547
  4. Determinants of speech rate and fluency in fast and slow speaking normally fluent children
    Frank R. Boutsen and Stephen B. Hood 557
  5. Improving assessment of children's oral motor development in clinical settings
    J. Scott Yaruss 565
  6. Clock and motor variances in lip-tracking: A comparison between children who stutter and those who do not
    Peter Howell, James Au-Yeung and Lena Rustin 573
  7. Visuomotor tracking in children who stutter: A preliminary view
    Patricia M. Zebrowski, Jerald B. Moon and Donald A. Robin 579
  8. Linguistic behaviors at the onset of stuttering
    Nan Bernstein Ratner 585
  9. Cognitive and linguistic abilities of stuttering children
    Andrea Häge, Dieter Rommel, Helge S. Johannsen and Hartmut Schulze 595
  10. Linguistic aspects of stuttering in childhood
    Dieter Rommel, Andrea Häge, Helge S. Johannsen and Hartmut Schulze 603
  11. Quantitative assessment of dysarthria and developmental apraxia of speech
    Ben Maassen, Geert Thoonen and Inge Boers 611
  12. Clinical application of speech science instrumentation in the determination of treatment priorities in acquired and congenital childhood dysarthria
    Bruce E. Murdoch, Susan K. Horton, Deborah G. Theodoros and Elizabeth C. Thompson 621

Index of authors 631