Benjamin H. Munson, Guitar

Suite in D / Michael Praetorius, transcribed by Patrick Russ; 1st Cello Suite, BWV 1007 / J.S. Bach; Aria detta la Frescobalda / Girolamo Frescobaldi; La Catedral / Agustin Barrios; Leyenda (Asturias) / Isaac Albeniz, arranged by Sophocles Papas; Ricercare XIX; Fantasia VI / Francesco da Milan

Benjamin H. Munson, Classical Guitar

Ricercare XIX; Fantasia VI / Francesco da Milano; Suite in D / Michael Praetorius; transcribed by Patrick Russ; Aria con Variazioni Detta La Frescobalda / Girolamo Frescobaldi; Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007 / Johann Sebastian Bach; Prelude No. 1 / Heitor Villa-Lobos; Capricho Arabe (Serenata) / Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea; Asturias Leyenda / Isaac Albeniz; arranged by Sophocles Papa

Joint Faculty Recital: Nathan Munson, tenor, John Warren, clarinet and Benjamin Wadsworth, piano

This KSU School of Music performance features tenor and Instructor of Voice Nathan Munson, with pianist and Associate Professor of Music Theory Dr. Ben Wadsworth, and John Warren, Associate Professor of Clarinet. Program includes works by Beethoven, Pizzetti, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and more.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2114/thumbnail.jp

Motor control and nonword repetition in specific working memory impairment and SLI

PURPOSE:: Debate around the underlying cognitive factors leading to poor performance in the repetition of nonwords by children with developmental impairments in language has centered around phonological short-term memory, lexical knowledge, and other factors. This study examines the impact of motor control demands on nonword repetition in groups of school children with specific impairments in language, working memory, or both. METHOD:: Children repeated two lists of nonwords matched for motoric complexity either without constraint or with a gummi bear bite block held between their teeth. The bite block required motoric compensation to reorganize the motor plan for speech production. RESULTS:: Overall, the effect of the biomechanical constraint was very small for all groups. When analyses focused only on the most complex nonwords, children with language impairment were found to be significantly more impaired in the motorically constrained nonword repetition task than the typically developing group. In contrast, working memory difficulties were not differentially linked to motor condition. CONCLUSIONS:: These findings add to the growing evidence that there is a motoric component to developmental language disorders. The results also suggest that the role of speech motor skill in nonword repetition is relatively modest. Copyright © 2013 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Estimating Winning Probabilities in Backgammon Races

In modern backgammon, it is advantageous to know the chances each player has of winning, and to be able to compute the chances without the aid of calculators or pencil and paper. A simple model of backgammon is used to approximate those chances, and a readily computable and sufficiently accurate approximation of that is developed. From there, the model is compared to simulated backgammon games, and the previous approximation is modified to fit the real data

Applying item-response theory to the development of a screening adaptation of the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-2

PURPOSE: Item Response Theory (IRT) is a psychometric approach to measurement that uses latent trait abilities (e.g., speech sound production skills) to model performance on individual items that vary by difficulty and discrimination. An IRT analysis was applied to preschooler’s productions of the words on the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-2 (GFTA-2) to identify candidates for a screening measure of speech sound production skills. METHOD: The phoneme accuracies from 154 preschoolers, with speech skills on the GFTA-2 ranging from the 1st to above the 90th percentile, were analyzed with a two-parameter logistic model. RESULTS: A total of 108 of the 232 phonemes from stimuli in the sounds-in-words subtest fit the IRT model. These phonemes, and subgroups of the most difficult of these phonemes, correlated significantly with the children’s overall percentile scores on the GFTA-2. Regression equations calculated for the five and ten most difficult phonemes predicted overall percentile score at levels commensurate with other screening measures. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that speech production accuracy can be screened effectively with a small number of sounds. They motivate further research towards the development of a screening measure of children’s speech sound production skills whose stimuli consist of a limited number of difficult phonemes

Practice in Child Phonological Disorders: Tackling some Common Clinical Problems

Goal of presentation is to identify areas of child phonology that clinicans have difficulty with

Horn Coupled Multichroic Polarimeters for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization Experiment

Multichroic polarization sensitive detectors enable increased sensitivity and spectral coverage for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). An array optimized for dual frequency detectors can provide 1.7 times gain in sensitivity compared to a single frequency array. We present the design and measurements of horn coupled multichroic polarimeters encompassing the 90 and 150 GHz frequency bands and discuss our plans to field an array of these detectors as part of the ACTPol project