Introduction: Speech and language development is an important indicator of a child's overall intellectual functioning. There large amount data on the prevalence risk factors speech delay from West, but relatively scanty India. Language Evaluation Scale Trivandrum (LEST) screening tool for use in outpatient clinics communities identifying toddlers. Materials Methods: A descriptive study cross-se...

The pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of language use vary across different situations, languages, and cultures. The separation of these two facets of language use can help to map out the socio-cultural norms and conventions as well as the linguistic forms and strategies that underlie the pragmatic performance of different language speakers in a variety of target language use situatio...

this paper reports the results of an experimental study on non-native production of english vowels. two groups of persian efl learners varying in language proficiency were tested on their ability to produce the nine plain vowels of american english. vowel production accuracy was assessed by means of acoustic measurements. ladefoged and maddison’s (1996) f1 f2 measurements for american english v...

objectives: the spontaneous language sample analysis is an important part of the language assessment protocol. language samples give us useful information about how children use language in the natural situations of daily life. the purpose of this study was to compare conversation, freeplay, and narrative speech in aspects of mean length of utterance (mlu), type-token ratio (ttr), and the numbe...

The basic building blocks of a speech segmentation system are its units. Thus it’s an important stage to select appropriate units into which the continuous speech needs to be segmented. The syllable like units is found to be the better representative for Indian languages. Punjabi is the most widely used language, thus this paper describes the automatic segmentation of Punjabi speech into syllab...

Problem statement: In the modern speech communication technology, the speech coding with bitrate scalability was needed. However, various types of noises in the communication channels cause damages in the transmitted information especially speech data. Tonal-language speech was also affected by this situation. Approach: Based on the high pitch delay resolution technique, the MPCELP speech codin...

HowCan I Tell If My Child Has a Speech or Language Delay? While every child develops in his or her own unique way, there are speechand languagemilestones thatmost childrenwill reachat certain ages. Your pediatrician will talk with you about these milestonesduringwell-child checkups.Examplesof thesemilestones for speech and language are: • By 1 year of age, most babies will: • Wave goodbye. • Sa...

Objective To analyze speech and linguistic features in children with articulation disorder characterized by consonant and vowel phonological errors. Methods Between February 2007 and June 2015, 117 children who showed articulation disorder were selected for the study. Based on comprehensive speech and language assessments, the subjects were classified into articulation dysfunction (AD), or AD...