Current work expands on a master’s thesis conducted by Rachel Babccok (n\u00e9e Platt) and analyzes the the melodic and rhythmic patterns (i.e., prosody) of children with CAS and children with no known speech or language disorder. We are interested in how children with CAS produce intonation. This is part of a larger project led by Dr. Don Robin (CSD, UNH) that is anlayzing the effectiveness of the treatment TEMPO (Treatment for Establishing Motor Program Organization), which uses principles of motor learning to treat children with CAS (Miller et al., 2021).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"waveformspec\"](\"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2023\/07\/waveformspec.jpg\" "\\"waveformspec\\"")
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Downstep in Mainstream United States English<\/strong><\/p>\n In work with Linguistics Professor Rachel Burdin, another area of interest is examining how prosody and acoustics vary with meaning in language. This series of studies looks specifically at the meaning and acoustic realizations of the downstepped pitch contour !H*. This work is currently under review for publication (Thorson & Burdin, revise & resubmit).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acoustics of Prosody One of the goals of the CAT Lab is to identify and examine speech acoustic characteristics across populations, including children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), a type of motor speech disorder. We use acoustic analyses to look at the specific speech aspects and pinpoint differences between groups. Acoustics of CAS Current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/catlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}