## Abstract Parkinsonian speech or hypokinetic dysarthria results from a multidimensional impairment of phonation, articulation, and prosody. Although the dysprosody in Parkinson's disease (PD) is well described (alterations in speech rate and pause time, speech intensity and pitch variation), litt
Instability of syllable repetition as a marker of disease progression in Parkinson's disease: A longitudinal study
β Scribed by Sabine Skodda; Andrea Flasskamp; Uwe Schlegel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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