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Vanessa Brzoskowski dos Santos; Amanda Lara Bressanelli; Fernanda Venzke Zardin; Rui Rothe-Neves; Maira Rozenfeld Olchik – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Speech differences may occur between motor subtypes of Parkinson's disease (PD), but the literature remains limited. Aims: Examine speech characteristics in individuals with PD across the tremor-dominant, nontremor-dominant and mixed subtypes comparing to healthy controls. Methods and Procedures: A total of 115 individuals with PD were…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Psychomotor Skills, Diseases, Rating Scales
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Jimin Kahng – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
The development of L2 utterance fluency has been extensively researched, whereas that of cognitive fluency has rarely been examined. This study investigated the longitudinal development of L2 utterance and cognitive fluency and their relationship. Thirty-one Chinese learners of English completed speaking tasks and a set of tasks for cognitive…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Fluency, Syntax, Language Processing
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Chao Zhou; Anabela Rato – Second Language Research, 2024
This study reports syllable position effects on second language (L2) Portuguese speech perception, revealing that L2 segmental learning may be prone to an influence from the suprasegmental level. The results show that first language (L1) Mandarin learners had diminished performance on the discrimination between the target Portuguese liquids (/l/…
Descriptors: Syllables, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Mandarin Chinese