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Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol.49 645-659 June 2006. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2006/047)
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Influences of Electromagnetic Articulography Sensors on Speech Produced by Healthy Adults and Individuals With Aphasia and Apraxia

William F. Katz
Sneha V. Bharadwaj
Monica P. Stettler
University of Texas at Dallas

Contact author: William F. Katz, Callier Center for Communication Disorders, University of Texas at Dallas, 1966 Inwood Road, Dallas, Texas 75235. Email: wkatz{at}utdallas.edu

PURPOSE: This study examined whether the intraoral transducers used in electromagnetic articulography (EMA) interfere with speech and whether there is an added risk of interference when EMA systems are used to study individuals with aphasia and apraxia.

METHOD: Ten adult talkers (5 individuals with aphasia/apraxia, 5 controls) produced 12 American English vowels in /hVd/ words, the fricative–vowel (FV) words (/si/, /su/, /ei/, /eu/), and the sentence She had your dark suit in greasy wash water all year, in EMA sensors-on and sensors-off conditions. Segmental durations, vowel formant frequencies, and fricative spectral moments were measured to address possible acoustic effects of sensor placement. A perceptual experiment examined whether FV words produced in the sensors-on condition were less identifiable than those produced in the sensors-off condition.

RESULTS: EMA sensors caused no consistent acoustic effects across all talkers, although significant within-subject effects were noted for a small subset of the talkers. The perceptual results revealed some instances of sensor-related intelligibility loss for FV words produced by individuals with aphasia and apraxia.

CONCLUSIONS: The findings support previous suggestions that acoustic screening procedures be used to protect articulatory experiments from those individuals who may show consistent effects of having devices placed on intraoral structures. The findings further suggest that studies of fricatives produced by individuals with aphasia and apraxia may require additional safeguards to ensure that results are not adversely affected by intraoral sensor interference.

KEY WORDS: speech production, electromagnetic articulography, fricative spectral moments, aphasia, apraxia of speech


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