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Effects of Ageing on Speech

Suspended
Conditions
Healthy Adults, Aging
Registration Number
DRKS00017559
Lead Sponsor
niversität zu Köln, Institut für Linguistik, Abteilung Phonetik
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Suspended
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
40
Inclusion Criteria

Participants in the age of 20-30 or 65-80 years, raised monolingually with German

Exclusion Criteria

German is not the only mother tongue, voice disorders, speaking disorders and hearing disorders, cardiovascular diseases, neurological diseases, removable denture

Study & Design

Study Type
observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Acoustic and articulatory recordings by means of electromagnetic articulography for capturing movement trajectories of the articulators (e.g. lips, tongue) involved in speech production.<br><br>Acoustic and respiratory recordings by means of respitrace for gathering breathing patterns during speech production.<br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Determining participants eligibility: Questionnaire for determining origin, language contact, health condition, hearing screening (pc audiometer), cognition tests (Mini Mental State Estimation, PANDA), test battery (BoDyS) to test for dysarthria
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