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. 2022 Oct 28;65(11):4112–4132. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00177

Table 2.

Speech tasks and resultant quantitative speech measures.

Task Tokens Measure Abbreviation Acoustic vs. kinematic Derivation
DDK AMR: /bʌbʌbʌ/
SMR: /bʌdʌgʌ/
Duration, AMR dur_AMR Kinematic Auto-extract all variables (Rong et al., 2018)
Duration, SMR dur_SMR
# cycles, AMR ncyc_AMR Kinematic
# cycles, SMR ncyc_SMR
Maximum velocity, AMR vel_AMR Kinematic
Spatiotemporal index, SMR sti_SMR Kinematic
Rate, AMR rate_AMR Kinematic Formula:
#cyclestotal durations
Rate, SMR rate_SMR
Rate, AMR vs. SMR rate_AMR.SMR Formula:
rateAMRrateSMRrateAMR+rateSMR
Maximum phonation /ah/ Duration dur_ah Acoustic Auto-extract duration following manual TextGrid parsing (Podgornik, 2011)
Cepstral peak prominence cpp Acoustic Auto-extract cpps (Maryn & Weenink, 2015)
CVC repetition /bit/, /bæt/, /but/
(×3, randomized)
Formant centralization ratio fcr Acoustic Supervised extraction of F1, F2 following manual TextGrid parsing (McCloy, 2012/2018)
Formula:
F2u+F2æ+F1i+F1uF2i+F1æ
Multisyllabic word repetition Weak–strong: <banana>, <computer>, <potato>, <pagoda>, <thermometer>
(×2, randomized)
Pairwise variability index, weak–strong pvi_ws Acoustic Auto-extract duration following manual TextGrid parsing of the first (V1) and second vowels (V2; (Podgornik, 2011)
Formula:
durationV1durationV2durationV1+durationV2/2× 100
Strong–weak: <stethoscope>, <butterfly>, <bicycle>, <dinosaur>, <caterpillar>
(×2, randomized)
Pairwise variability index, strong–weak pvi_sw
Picture description WAB picnic scene picture Articulation rate articrate Acoustic Auto-extract total speech duration; manual syllable count (Green et al., 2004)
Formula:
#syllablestotal speech durations

Note. DDK = diadochokinesis; AMR = alternating motion rate; SMR = sequential motion rate; CVC = consonant–vowel–consonant; WAB = Western Aphasia Battery.