Exploring the Role of Fricatives in Classifying Healthy Subjects and Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease
Dysarthria due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD) impairs sustained phoneme productions. Vowels and fricatives get affected differently owing to the differences in their production mechanisms. This paper examines three sustained voiceless fricatives - /s/, /sh/ and /…