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