| Assessment of prosodic communicative efficiency in Parkinson's disease as judged by professional listeners. | |
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PMID: 21969916 Owner: NLM Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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This study examines the impact of Parkinson's disease (PD) on communicative efficiency conveyed through prosody. A new assessment method for evaluating productive prosodic skills in Dutch speaking dysarthric patients was devised and tested on 36 individuals (18 controls, 18 PD patients). Three professional listeners judged the intended meanings in four communicative functions of Dutch prosody: Boundary Marking, Focus, Sentence Typing, and Emotional Prosody. Each function was tested through reading and imitation. Interrater agreement was calculated. Results indicated that healthy speakers, compared to PD patients, performed significantly better on imitation of Boundary Marking, Focus, and Sentence Typing. PD patients with a moderate or severe dysarthria performed significantly worse on imitation of Focus than on reading of Focus. No significant differences were found for Emotional Prosody. Judges agreed well on all tasks except Emotional Prosody. Future research will focus on elaborating the assessment and on developing a therapy programme paralleling the assessment. |
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Heidi Martens; Gwen Van Nuffelen; Patrick Cras; Barbara Pickut; Miet De Letter; Marc De Bodt |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2011-09-28 |
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Title: Parkinson's disease Volume: 2011 ISSN: 2042-0080 ISO Abbreviation: Parkinsons Dis Publication Date: 2011 |
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Created Date: 2011-10-04 Completed Date: 2011-11-10 Revised Date: 2012-05-07 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101539877 Medline TA: Parkinsons Dis Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 129310 Citation Subset: - |
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Rehabilitation Centre for Communication Disorders, Antwerp University Hospital, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650 Edegem, Belgium. |
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