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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Commun Disord. 2014 Jul 14;51:43–50. doi: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2014.06.008

Table 4.

Agreement across all judgments as to the presence or absence of individual items

Agreement Item
100%

  • Reduced words per breath group relative to maximum vowel duration

  • Lengthened intersegment durations (between sounds, syllables, words, or phrases; possibly filled, including intrusive schwa)
90%

  • Syllable segmentation within words > 1 syllable

  • Sound distortions

  • Lengthened vowel and/or consonant segment
80%

  • Increased sound distortions or distorted sound substitutions with increased utterance length or increased syllable/word articulatory complexity

  • Inaccurate (off-target in place or manner) speech AMRs

  • Syllable segmentation across words in phrases/sentences

  • Deliberate, slowly sequenced, segmented, and/or distorted (including distorted substitutions) speech SMRs in comparison to speech AMRs
70%

  • Distorted sound substitutions

  • Distorted sound additions (not including intrusive schwa)

  • Slow overall speech rate

  • Audible or visible articulatory groping; speech initiation difficulty; false starts/restarts

  • Sound prolongations (beyond the patient’s likely lengthened vowel and consonant segments)
40–60%

  • Increased sound distortions or distorted sound substitutions with increased speech rate

  • Sound or syllable repetitions