Please join us for our next Brown Bag speaker event on Thursday, June 12, 9:00am at LRW 4001. Dr. Rui Rothe-Neves will present a paper titled “Acoustic analyses of speech production in Parkinson’s Disease.” Dr Rothe-Neves is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Language and Literature and the Postgraduate Program in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology of the Faculty of Medicine (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil).
Abstract:
This talk briefly overviews some of the results from a long-standing collaboration between Dr. Rothe-Neves’ Phonetics Lab and the Laboratoire Parole et Language (LPL, CNRS/AMU) on the speech of people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Individuals with PD face several impairments that contribute to voice and speech decline, so-called ‘hypokinetic dysarthria.’ Dysarthria refers to speech with reduced pitch and loudness, longer, more frequent and inappropriately placed silent pauses, imprecise consonant articulation, harsh voice, and disturbed timing. The research team analyzed acoustic measures that tap into the features of hypokinetic dysarthria, looking for differences in Portuguese- and French-speaking populations.
References:
- Pinto, S., Chan, A., Guimarães, I., Rothe-Neves, R., & Sadat, J. (2017). A cross-linguistic perspective to the study of dysarthria in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Phonetics, 64, 156-167. Doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2017.01.009
- Pinto, S., Cardoso, R., Atkinson-Clement, C., Guimarães, I., Sadat, J., Santos, H., … & Ferreira, J. J. (2024). Do Acoustic Characteristics of Dysarthria in People With Parkinson’s Disease Differ Across Languages?. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-20. Doi: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00525
