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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Linguist Phon. 2010 Oct;24(10):795–824. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2010.503006

Table 3.

Candidate diagnostic markers of subtypes of Speech Delay (SD) and subtypes of Motor Speech Disorders (MSD) in the Competence, Precision, and Stability Analytics (CPSA) framework.

Segmental Competence Precision Stability
1. Vowels Percentage of Non-rhotic Vowels/Diphthongs Correct Reduced Vowel Space Less Stable Vowel Space
Percentage of Rhotic Vowels/Diphthongs Correct Lengthened Vowels Less Stable F1
Percentage of Phonemic Diphthongs Correct Distorted Rhotics Less Stable F2
Percentage of Vowels Correct: CSS a Reduced Pairwise Vowel Duration Variability Less Stable Vowel Duration
Percentage of Vowels Correct: ATb Less Stable Rhotic Distortions: F3-F2
Percentage of Non-rhotic Vowels/Diphthongs Correct Revised Less Stable Vowel Errors
Percentage of Rhotic Vowels/Diphthongs Correct Revised
Percentage of Phonemic Diphthongs Correct Revised
Percentage of Vowels/Diphthongs Correct Revised: CSS
Percentage of Vowels/Diphthongs Correct Revised: AT
Percentage of Relative Non-rhotic Vowel/Diphthong Distortions
2. Consonants Percentage of Consonants in Inventory Nasal Emissions Less Stable Consonant Errors
Percentage of Consonants Correct: CSS Reduced % Glides Correct Less Stable Sibilant Centroids
Percentage of Consonants Correct: AT Lowered Sibilant Centroids
Percentage of Consonants Correct- Revised: CSS Lengthened Cluster Durations
Percentage of Consonants Correct- Revised: AT
Percentage of Consonants Correct in Complex Words: MWT
Relative Omission Index
Relative Substitution Index
Relative Distortion Index
3. Vowels and Consonants Speech Disorders Classification System Increased Percentage of Phoneme Distortions Less Stable Whole Word Errors
Intelligibility Index Syllable/Word Segregation: Increased % Between/Within-Word Pauses Less Stable % Phonemes Correct in Complex Words
Percentage of Structurally Correct Words
Suprasegmental
 Prosody
4. Phrasing Percentage Appropriate Phrasing Increased Repetitions and Revisions Reduced Speech-Pause Duration Variability Ratio
5. Rate Percentage Appropriate Rate Slower Speaking Rate Less Stable Speaking Rate
Slower Articulation Rate Less Stable Articulation Rate
6. Stress Percentage Appropriate Stress Reduced Lexical Stress Less Stable Lexical Stress
Increased Lexical Stress Less Stable Emphatic Stress
Reduced Emphatic Stress Less Stable Sentential Stress
Reduced Sentential Stress
 Voice
7. Loudness Percentage Appropriate Loudness Reduced Vowels-Consonants Intensity Ratios Less Stable Vowels-Consonants Intensity Ratios
Increased Vowels-Consonants Intensity Ratios
8. Pitch Percentage Appropriate Pitch Lowered Fundamental Frequency Mean Less Stable Mean Fundamental Frequency
Raised Fundamental Frequency Mean
Lowered Fundamental Frequency Range
Increased Fundamental Frequency Range
9. Laryngeal Quality Percentage Appropriate Laryngeal Quality Increased Jitter Less Stable Jitter
Increased Shimmer Less Stable Shimmer
Reduced Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio Less Stable Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio
Increased % Breathy Utterances
Increased % Rough Utterances
Increased % Strained Utterances
Increased % Break/Shift/Tremorous Utterances
10. Resonance Quality Percentage Appropriate Resonance Quality Increased % Nasal Utterances Less Stable: Nasal: Lowered F1: /a/
Nasal: Lowered F1:/a/ Nasopharyngeal: Less Stable F2: High Vowels
Increased % of Nasopharyngeal Utterances
Nasopharyngeal Lowered F2:High Vowels

Note. Bold entries indicate candidate marker analysis completed using acoustic data reduction methods.

a

See Table 2 for key to abbreviations.

b

AT=Articulation Test, a generic term for alternative articulation tests, including the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation (2nd ed.), Sounds-in-Words section.