On the Relationship between Speech Intelligibility and Fluency Indicators among English-Speaking Individuals with Parkinson’s Diseases

Table 2

The descriptive statistics of the speech intelligibility scores and fluency indicators.

Participant no.	Intelligibility score	Repetition	Correction	Omission	Distortion	Unfilled pause	Filled pause	Speaking Rate^a
1	7	0	0	2	0	1	0	2.66
2	6.5	0	1	0	1	0	0	4.04
3	6.5	0	0	0	0	4	1	2.78
4	7	0	1	0	0	1	0	2.52
5	2.5	1	2	16	1	4	0	1.92
6	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	2.53
7	4	2	1	0	0	11	0	1.96
8	2	0	1	43	3	14	1	1.51
9	6.5	1	0	0	0	6	0	2.57
10	6.5	0	0	0	2	0	0	3.37
11	5	5	1	0	3	16	0	1.91
12	1.5	2	2	19	3	25	3	1.03
13	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.85
14	3.5	2	4	0	1	11	0	1.88
15	4	2	1	3	1	34	1	1.31
16	6.5	0	0	0	1	1	0	3.02
Average score	5.19	0.94	0.88	5.19	1	8.06	0.38	2.37
Standard deviation	1.97	1.39	1.09	11.68	1.16	10.02	0.81	0.79

a: Speaking rate was calculated based on the average number of syllables produced by the speaker per second.