Syntax, Stress Response, and Speech Motor Control

Abstract Although certain speech development milestones are readily observable, the developmental course of speech motor control is largely unknown. However, recent advances in facial motion tracking systems have been used to investigate articulator movements in children and the findings from these studies are being used to further our understanding of the physiologic basis of typical and disordered speech development. Physiologic work has revealed that the emergence of speech is highly dependent on the lack of flexibility in the early oromotor system. It also has been determined that the progression of speech motor development is non-linear, a finding that has motivated researchers to investigate how variables such as oromotor control, cognition, and linguistic factors affect speech development in the form of catalysts and constraints. Physiologic data are also being used to determine if non-speech oromotor behaviors play a role in the development of speech. This improved understanding of the physiology underlying speech, as well as the factors influencing its progression, helps inform our understanding of speech motor control in children with disordered speech and provide a framework for theory-driven therapeutic approaches to treatment.

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Goal-based speech motor control: A theoretical framework and some preliminary data

Journal of Phonetics ◽

10.1016/s0095-4470(95)80030-1 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 23 (1-2) ◽

pp. 23-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Joseph S. Perkell ◽

Melanie L. Matthies ◽

Mario A. Svirsky ◽

Michael I. Jordan

Keyword(s):

Motor Control ◽

Preliminary Data ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Speech Motor Control ◽

Speech Motor

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Consistency influences altered auditory feedback processing

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ◽

10.1177/1747021819838939 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 72 (10) ◽

pp. 2371-2379 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Matthias K Franken ◽

Daniel J Acheson ◽

James M McQueen ◽

Peter Hagoort ◽

Frank Eisner

Keyword(s):

Motor Control ◽

Speech Production ◽

Auditory Feedback ◽

Speech Motor Control ◽

Short Term ◽

Feedback Processing ◽

Motor Commands ◽

Consistent Condition ◽

Consistency Effect ◽

Speech Motor

Previous research on the effect of perturbed auditory feedback in speech production has focused on two types of responses. In the short term, speakers generate compensatory motor commands in response to unexpected perturbations. In the longer term, speakers adapt feedforward motor programmes in response to feedback perturbations, to avoid future errors. The current study investigated the relation between these two types of responses to altered auditory feedback. Specifically, it was hypothesised that consistency in previous feedback perturbations would influence whether speakers adapt their feedforward motor programmes. In an altered auditory feedback paradigm, formant perturbations were applied either across all trials (the consistent condition) or only to some trials, whereas the others remained unperturbed (the inconsistent condition). The results showed that speakers’ responses were affected by feedback consistency, with stronger speech changes in the consistent condition compared with the inconsistent condition. Current models of speech-motor control can explain this consistency effect. However, the data also suggest that compensation and adaptation are distinct processes, which are not in line with all current models.

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Speech, Motor Control

Speech and Language ◽

10.1007/978-1-4899-6774-9_15 ◽

1989 ◽

pp. 39-40

Author(s):

Peter F. MacNeilage

Keyword(s):

Motor Control ◽

Speech Motor Control ◽

Speech Motor

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Cortical networks for speech motor control in unilateral vocal fold paralysis

The Laryngoscope ◽

10.1002/lary.27730 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 129 (9) ◽

pp. 2125-2130 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Molly L. Naunheim ◽

Katherine C. Yung ◽

Sarah L. Schneider ◽

Jennifer Henderson‐Sabes ◽

Hardik Kothare ◽

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Keyword(s):

Motor Control ◽

Vocal Fold ◽

Vocal Fold Paralysis ◽

Speech Motor Control ◽

Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis ◽

Cortical Networks ◽

Speech Motor

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Abnormal Speech Motor Control in Individuals with 16p11.2 Deletions

10.1101/165316 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Carly Demopoulos ◽

Hardik Kothare ◽

Danielle Mizuiri ◽

Jennifer Henderson-Sabes ◽

Brieana Fregeau ◽

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Keyword(s):

Motor Control ◽

Auditory Feedback ◽

Spectral Peak ◽

Motor Deficits ◽

Speech Motor Control ◽

Sensorimotor Adaptation ◽

Speech And Language ◽

Vowel Production ◽

Identity Changes ◽

Speech Motor

AbstractSpeech and motor deficits are highly prevalent (>70%) in individuals with the 600 kb BP4-BP5 16p11.2 deletion; however, the mechanisms that drive these deficits are unclear, limiting our ability to target interventions and advance treatment. This study examined fundamental aspects of speech motor control in participants with the 16p11.2 deletion. To assess capacity for control of voice, we examined how accurately and quickly subjects changed the pitch of their voice within a trial to correct for a transient perturbation of the pitch of their auditory feedback. When compared to sibling controls, 16p11.2 deletion carriers show an over-exaggerated pitch compensation response to unpredictable mid-vocalization pitch perturbations. We also examined sensorimotor adaptation of speech by assessing how subjects learned to adapt their sustained productions of formants (speech spectral peak frequencies important for vowel identity), in response to consistent changes in their auditory feedback during vowel production. Deletion carriers show reduced sensorimotor adaptation to sustained vowel identity changes in auditory feedback. These results together suggest that 16p11.2 deletion carriers have fundamental impairments in the basic mechanisms of speech motor control and these impairments may partially explain the deficits in speech and language in these individuals.

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