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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 5.

Candidate CPSA Markers for Motor Speech Disorders-Apraxia of Speech (MSD-AOS), Motor Speech Disorders-Dysarthria (MSD-DYS), and Motor Speech Disorders-Not Otherwise Specified (MSD-NOS).

Motor Speech Disorders-Apraxia of Speech (MSD-AOS)
Segmental Precision Stability
 1. Vowels Less Stable Vowel Space
Less Stable F1
Less Stable F2
Less Stable Vowel Duration
Less Stable Rhotic Distortions: F3-F2
Less Stable Vowel Errors
 2. Consonants Reduced % Glides Correct Less Stable Consonant Errors
Less Stable Sibilant Centroids
 3. Vowels & Consonants Less Stable Whole Word Errors
Less Stable % Phonemes Correct in Complex Words
Suprasegmental
 Prosody
 4. Phrasing Increased Repetitions and Revisions Reduced Speech-Pause Duration Variability Ratio
 5. Rate Less Stable Speaking Rate
Less Stable Articulation Rate
 6. Stress Less Stable Lexical Stress
Less Stable Emphatic Stress
 Voice Less Stable Sentential Stress
 7. Loudness Less Stable Vowels-Consonants Intensity Ratios
 8. Pitch Less Stable Mean Fundamental Frequency
 9. Laryngeal Quality Less Stable Jitter
Less Stable Shimmer
Less Stable Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio
 10. Resonance Quality Less Stable: Nasal: Lowered F1: /a/
Nasopharyngeal: Less Stable F2: High Vowels
Motor Speech Disorders-Dysarthria (MSD-DYS)
Segmental Precision Stability
 1. Vowels/Diphthongs
 2. Consonants Nasal Emissions
 3. Vowels/Diph & Consonants
Suprasegmental
 Prosody
 4. Phrasing
 5. Rate
 6. Stress
 Voice
 7. Loudness
 8. Pitch Lowered Fundamental Frequency Mean
Lowered Fundamental Frequency Range
 9. Laryngeal Quality Increased Jitter
Increased Shimmer
Reduced Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio
Increased % Breathy Utterances
Increased % Rough Utterances
Increased % Strained Utterances
Increased % Break/Shift/Tremorous Utterances
 10. Resonance Quality Increased % Nasal Utterances
Nasal: Lowered F1:/a/
Motor Speech Disorders-Not Otherwise Specified (MSD-NOS)
Segmental Precision Stability
 1. Vowels/Diphthongs Reduced Vowel Space
Lengthened Vowels
Distorted Rhotics
Reduced Pairwise Vowel Duration Variability
 2. Consonants Lowered Sibilant Centroids
Lengthened Cluster Durations
 3. Vowels/Diph & Consonants Increased Percentage of Phoneme Distortions
Syllable/Word Segregation: Increased % Between/Within Word Pauses
Suprasegmental
 Prosody
 4. Phrasing
 5. Rate Slower Speaking Rate
Slower Articulation Rate
 6. Stress Reduced Lexical Stress
Increased Lexical Stress
Reduced Emphatic Stress
 Voice Reduced Sentential Stress
 7. Loudness Reduced Vowels-Consonants Intensity Ratios
Increased Vowels-Consonants Intensity Ratios
 8. Pitch Raised Fundamental Frequency Mean
Increased Fundamental Frequency Range
 9. Laryngeal Quality
 10. Resonance Quality Increased % of Nasopharyngeal Utterances
Nasopharyngeal: Lowered F2: High Vowels

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