This study was designed to establish test-retest reliability of the consonant vowel and digit formats of the dichotic listening test with normal and learning-disabled children between the ages of 7 and 10 years. Between-group differences on ear advantage and total accuracy scores were also examined. The results indicated that both groups showed a right ear advantage and that there were no signi...

Vietnamese speakers' mispronunciations of Japanese singleton and geminate stops were identified using the category boundary pronounced by native speakers. To clarify characteristics mispronunciations, their speech segment durations analyzed. In comparison with correct pronunciations, speakers mispronounced a stop longer closure shorter preceding consonant-vowel segment, whereas they following s...

this study examines the phonetic properties of lexical stress in english produced by persian speakers learning english as a foreign language. the four most reliable phonetic correlates of english lexical stress, namely fundamental frequency, duration, intensity, and vowel quality were measured across persian speakers’ production of the stressed and unstressed syllables of five english disyllabi...

Objectives: Voice is influenced by personality. However, it is still questionable which acoustic features are influenced by personality traits. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between acoustic characteristics and personality dimensions. Methods: Thirty-three participants with dysphonia and 33 participants without dysphonia were recruited to take part in this cross-sectional st...

Methods: nineteen children with hearing impairment, hearing aids or cochlear implant and were in speech therapy participated in this research. The PCC index was calculated using three tests: naming, imitation and spontaneous speech, using the phonology tasks of ABFW’s Child Language Test. The procedures were applied and reapplied within a 12-month interval, thus, characterizing a longitudinal s...

PURPOSE To compare the Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) index of children with and without hearing loss, and to verify whether the time using hearing aids, the time in therapy, and the time spent until hearing loss was diagnosed influence the performance of deaf children. METHODS Participants were 30 children, 15 with hearing impairment and 15 with normal hearing, paired by gender and a...

Purpose: To compare the Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) index of children with and without hearing loss, and to verify whether the time using hearing aids, the time in therapy, and the time spent until hearing loss was diagnosed influence the performance of deaf children. Methods: Participants were 30 children, 15 with hearing impairment and 15 with normal hearing, paired by gender and a...

This paper aims to investigate the problems associated with reading Arabic as a foreign language. Workers in field of teaching language must have noticed that learners face some lead hindering or slowing down their progress skill. tried pinpoint difficulties non-native learners, and different factors pertaining those problems. An empirical tool, be described below, was used achieve objectives t...

careful analysis of the ferdows persian accent showed that the back vowel /a/ changes to front vowel [a] in the first syllable of bi-syllabic words and in the second syllable of tri-syllabic words. however, this does not occur in the last syllable. it was also found that different processes occur before nasals; /a/ changes to [o] before /m/. but before /n/, it changes to [a] in the penult of ...