Speech Motor Control: New developments in basic and applied research

SECTION ONE: MODELLING OF SPEECH PRODUCTION 1. Apraxia of speech: what the deconstruction of phonetic plans tells us about the construction of articulate language 2. Phonemic, sensory and motor representations in an action-based neurocomputational model of speech production (ACT) 3. Control of movement precision in speech production 4. Variability of North American English /r/ production in response to palatal pertubation SECTION 2: GENETICS AND NEUROLOGY 5. Brain imaging in children 6. Motor speech profile in relation to site of brain pathology 7. Cerebral control of motor aspects of speech production: neurophysiological and functional imaging data SECTION 3: SPEECH MOTOR DEVELOPMENT 8. Dynamic interaction of motor and language factors in normal and disordered development 9. Lip rounding anticipatory control: crosslinguistically lawful and ontogenetically attuned 10. Some organization principles in early speech development SECTION 4: FLUENCY DISORDERS 11. Speech motor variability in people who stutter 12. Speech motor timing and fluency SCTION 5: CLINICAL IMPACT 13. Classification and taxonomy in motor speech disorders: what are the issues? 14. Developmental models of childhood apraxia of speech 15. A neurodevelopmental framework for research in childhood apraxia of speech 16. Distinguishing among motor speech disorders is important: the role of speech pathology in neurologic diagnosis 17. Laryngeal articulatory coupling in three speech disorders 18. Electrical stimulation of deep brain structures and speech SECTION 6: METHODS 19. Recent advances in the physiological assessment of articulation: introducing three dimensional technology 20. Five-dimensional articulography 21. 2D and 3D ultrasound imaging of the tongue in normal and disordered speech