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Martin J Ball1, Chris Code, Jeremy Tree
1Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-3170, USA. mjball@louisiana.edu
Abstract:
In this paper we report on an adult male participant with a rare form of progressive speech degeneration. We present acoustic phonetic data on his vowel and consonant production, and describe his prosody and syllable structure. We suggest possible phonological analyses of his speech, concluding that a gestural approach to phonology best characterizes his speech production and its degeneration.
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