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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Parkinson’s Disease Volume 2011, Article ID 129310, 10 pages doi:10.4061/2011/129310 Research Article Assessment of Prosodic Communicative Efficiency in Parkinson’s Disease As Judged by Professional Listeners Heidi Martens,1 Gwen Van Nuffelen,1 Patrick Cras,2 Barbara Pickut,2 Miet De Letter,3 and Marc De Bodt1, 4 1 Rehabilitation Centre for Communication Disorders, Antwerp University Hospital, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650 Edegem, Belgium 2 Department of Neurology, Antwerp University Hospital, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650 Edegem, Belgium 3 Centre for Speech and Hearing Disorders, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 4 Department of Speech and Language Pathology and Audiology, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium Correspondence should be addressed to Heidi Martens, heidi.martens@uza.be Received 1 April 2011; Revised 3 July 2011; Accepted 23 July 2011 Academic Editor: Tara Whitehill Copyright © 2011 Heidi Martens et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This study examines the impact of Parkinson’s disease (PD) on communicative efficiency conveyed through prosody. A new assessment method for evaluating productive prosodic skills in Dutch speaking dysarthric patients was devised and tested on 36 individuals (18 controls, 18 PD patients). Three professional listeners judged the intended meanings in four communicative functions of Dutch prosody: Boundary Marking, Focus, Sentence Typing, and Emotional Prosody. Each function was tested through reading and imitation. Interrater agreement was calculated. Resu