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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 8Cummine, Jacqueline (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 6Kim, Esther (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 5Boliek, Carol (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 5Pollock, Karen (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 3Paslawski, Teresa (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 2Campbell, Melanie (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
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Spring 2016
Background. Stuttered speech (e.g., th-ththth-th-ththth-the car) and typical disfluencies (e.g., thee uh car) have some similarities. Previous research describes a tendency in listeners to predict that a speaker will refer to an unfamiliar object, rather than a familiar one, when both are equally...
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Fall 2021
BackgroundChildhood apraxia of speech (CAS) has attracted controversy in the field of speech-language pathology for decades. There is some agreement that CAS is a neurological speech sound disorder that impairs a child’s ability to plan and/or program the precise and sequential movements required...
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Emergence and Refinement of Respiratory Chest Wall Intermuscular Coherence Associated with Speech and Non-Speech Tasks in Younger and Older Children
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Introduction: There is limited information about the development of chest wall muscular control of lung volume and alveolar pressure for non-speech and speech tasks. The present study was the first in a series of studies aimed at achieving an in-depth understanding of intermuscular coherence of...
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Spring 2016
Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome that initially affects language while other aspects of cognition remain relatively spared. Although the symptoms of PPA become progressively worse, speech-language pathologists can provide behavioral interventions that help the...
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Examining Activation of Lexical and Semantic Representations Without Intention: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials
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Background. According to dual-route models of reading, there are two pathways with which words can be read: an orthographic-lexical pathway used to read familiar regular words and exception (EXC) words, and a grapheme-to-phoneme-conversion (GPC)-sublexical pathway used to read unfamiliar regular...
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Spring 2020
When speakers are asked to name a series of semantically related pictures (e.g., apple, pear, banana), response times increase as more pictures are named. This effect is known as cumulative semantic interference (CSI). Researchers who have studied these effects in adults have proposed that these...
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Spring 2019
Reading impairments (acquired alexia) commonly co-occur in people with aphasia (PWA). The ultimate goal of reading treatment is to read connected text accurately and quickly. Traditional treatments of acquired alexia have typically targeted single word reading, which has seen little...
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Spring 2024
Media, such as television, music, and books, are integral to most modern households. Hence, it can significantly influence children’s home learning environment. For multilingual migrant parents interested in passing on their heritage language and culture to their children, media can be a powerful...
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Holistic Linguistics: An in-depth analysis of six bilingual English-French children living in Quebec City
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The Problem: When it comes to assessing and intervening with bilingual populations, language interventionists face a difficult problem. Not only is there a lack of standardized tests for these populations, but even the use of the few that exist have limits about their conclusions. These limits...
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Learning to speak a minority language at school: Mandarin speech development of children in a Chinese-English bilingual program in Canada
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A key factor of bilingual speech development is speech input. Different from an immigrant setting where children who are learning the majority language as a second language (L2) can receive rich and authentic input, the speech input is usually limited when learning a minority language. For L2...