Why does transcription of pathological speech become unreliable due to inconsistent consonant production?

💡 Explanation

In pathological speech, articulatory undershoot occurs because the speech motor control system fails, therefore consonants are produced with reduced range of motion. This reduces the acoustic contrast between phonemes, rather than vowel compensation or environmental interference, making accurate transcription difficult.

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