Acoustic Analyses of Tone Productions in Sequencing Contexts Among Cantonese-Speaking Preschool Children With and Without Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Author:

Wong Eddy C. H.1ORCID,Wong Min Ney1234ORCID,Velleman Shelley L.5ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom

2. Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom

3. Research Institute for Smart Ageing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom

4. The HK PolyU-PKU Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom

5. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Vermont, Burlington

Abstract

Purpose: Pitch variations (tone productions) have been reported as a measure to differentiate Cantonese-speaking children with and without childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). This study aims to examine fundamental frequency ( F 0) changes within syllables and the effects of syllable structure, lexical status, and syllable positions on F 0 in Cantonese-speaking preschool children with and without CAS. Method: Six children with CAS, six children with non-CAS speech sound disorder plus language disorder (S&LD), 22 children with speech sound disorder only (SSD), and 63 children with typical speech-language development (TD) performed the tone sequencing task (TST). Growth curve analysis was employed to analyze and compare the F 0 values within syllables with three Cantonese tones (high level, high rising, and low falling). The analysis considered the effects of syllable structure (vowel and consonant–vowel), lexical status (word and nonword), and syllable position (initial, medial, and final) on F 0, as well as comparisons within and between groups. Results: Within each group, the effects of syllable structure and position on F 0 values were found with different patterns. Between-group comparisons showed that the CAS group had reduced F 0 contrasts. The CAS group could be differentiated from the control groups based on interactions of F 0 with syllable structure and position, but not lexical status. The dissimilarity of F 0 values detected between the CAS and SSD/TD groups was more prominent than that observed between the CAS and S&LD groups. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that Cantonese-speaking children with CAS had difficulty in varying F 0 within syllables as compared to those without CAS, suggesting pitch variation difficulty and language-specific impairment profiles in CAS. Future investigations of objective measures for identifying Cantonese speakers with CAS and cross-linguistic investigations using growth curve analysis and the TST are suggested.

Publisher

American Speech Language Hearing Association

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