Speech Motor Control In Normal and Disordered Speech

by Maassen, Ben; Kent, Raymond; Peters, Hermann

• ISBN13: 9780198526278
• ISBN10: 019852627X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Speaking is one of the most complex skills that humans perform. In our everyday communication, we transfer sentences, concepts, thoughts, and ideas. How though, is the speaker able to convert these into movements of the speech apparatus? These speech movements are the observable end-product,but what neurological, psycholinguistic, and perceptual-motor processes lie behind their production? To fully understand speech disorders, such as stuttering, apraxia of speech, and Parkinsonian dysarthria, the disruptions in this complex interplay are highly relevant. Equally important is the question of how the infant develops from random babbling to precisely controlled production of words,syllables, and phonemes. This volume presents state of the art research in the science of speech motor control and speech disorders. All the chapters take a fundamental, model-oriented perspective, as introduced in the first section of the volume. Further topics covered in this book are: brain imaging studies and the rapidprogression in comprehending neural mechanisms; developmental studies revealing perceptual-motor continuities and discontinuities; psycholinguistic experimentation showing higher-order influences on speech motor control; and recent notions and applications to the understanding of speech disorders.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xix
Modelling of speech production
Models of speech motor control: implications from recent developments in neurophysiological and neurobehavioral science	p. 3
A neural model of speech production and its application to studies of the role of auditory feedback in speech	p. 29
Dynamical systems theory and its application in speech	p. 51
Neural processes
Functional brain imaging of motor aspects of speech production	p. 85
Recent developments in brain imaging research in stuttering	p. 113
Subcortical brain mechanisms in speech motor control	p. 139
Speech motor development
How do infants come to control the organs of speech?	p. 175
Physiologic development of speech production	p. 191
Sensorimotor entrainment of respiratory and orofacial systems in humans	p. 211
Interface
Interaction of motor and language factors in the development of speech production	p. 225
Linguistic processes and childhood stuttering: many's a slip between intention and lip	p. 253
Motor control in disorders
Motor control perspectives on motor speech disorders	p. 283
Searching for the weak link in the speech production chain of people who stutter: a motor skill approach	p. 313
Stuttering and internal models for sensorimotor control: a theoretical perspective to generate testable hypotheses	p. 357
The differential diagnosis of apraxia of speech	p. 389
The role of the syllable in disorders of spoken language production	p. 415
Index	p. 449
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