Speech rhythm and timing of a speech-impaired speaker

We made quantitative rhythmic and timing measurements on speech samples obtained a 61 year-old monolingual female English speaker who is reported to have required a rare but possible case of Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS). The phonetic characteristics of speech produced by individuals with FAS affects both suprasegmental and segmental properties. We used a large scale of speech samples to overcome difficulties of comparison due to the lack of …