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Assessment of Prosodic Communicative Efficiency in Parkinson's Disease As Judged by Professional Listeners
Joint Authors
De Letter, Miet
Pickut, Barbara
Cras, Patrick
Van Nuffelen, Gwen
De Bodt, Marc
Martens, Heidi
Source
Issue
Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-07-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This study examines the impact of Parkinson's disease (PD) on communicative efficiency conveyed through prosody.
A new assessment method for evaluating productive prosodic skills in Dutch speaking dysarthric patients was devised and tested on 36 individuals (18 controls, 18 PD patients).
Three professional listeners judged the intended meanings in four communicative functions of Dutch prosody: Boundary Marking, Focus, Sentence Typing, and Emotional Prosody.
Each function was tested through reading and imitation.
Interrater agreement was calculated.
Results indicated that healthy speakers, compared to PD patients, performed significantly better on imitation of Boundary Marking, Focus, and Sentence Typing.
PD patients with a moderate or severe dysarthria performed significantly worse on imitation of Focus than on reading of Focus.
No significant differences were found for Emotional Prosody.
Judges agreed well on all tasks except Emotional Prosody.
Future research will focus on elaborating the assessment and on developing a therapy programme paralleling the assessment.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Martens, Heidi& Van Nuffelen, Gwen& Cras, Patrick& Pickut, Barbara& De Letter, Miet& De Bodt, Marc. 2011. Assessment of Prosodic Communicative Efficiency in Parkinson's Disease As Judged by Professional Listeners. Parkinson’s Disease،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-10.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Van Nuffelen, Gwen…[et al.]. Assessment of Prosodic Communicative Efficiency in Parkinson's Disease As Judged by Professional Listeners. Parkinson’s Disease No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-10.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Martens, Heidi& Van Nuffelen, Gwen& Cras, Patrick& Pickut, Barbara& De Letter, Miet& De Bodt, Marc. Assessment of Prosodic Communicative Efficiency in Parkinson's Disease As Judged by Professional Listeners. Parkinson’s Disease. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-991020
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-991020