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8710079

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-9-12
pubmed:abstractText
We studied syllabic timing in patients with ataxia (10 with cerebellar atrophy, 6 with Friedreich's ataxia) under two conditions: in a "natural" sentence production context and in the context of a rapid syllable repetition task. The two tasks included comparable articulatory maneuvers. We measured syllable durations from the speech signal and analyzed variables describing average syllabic rate and within-trial variation of syllable durations. Among the observed measures, slowed syllable repetition was a particularly powerful predictor of the severity of dysarthric impairment. In sentence production, patients often performed at normal syllabic rates. Irregular pacing of syllable repetitions was frequent. Different patterns of between-articulator variation emerged in the two tasks. All patients except one were slower in rapid repetitive articulation than in sentence production. These data suggest that sentence production and rapid repetitive articulation are governed by basically different motor processes. The disproportionate slowing of ataxic patients in the repetitive task can be ascribed to adaptation to novel motor tasks being impaired in cerebellar disease.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0028-3878
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
47
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
208-14
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Speech timing in ataxic disorders: sentence production and rapid repetitive articulation.
pubmed:affiliation
EKN Clinical Neuropsychology Research Group, München, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't