In Dutch, all morpheme-final obstruents are voiceless in word-final position. As a consequence, the distinction between obstruents that are voiced before vowel-initial suffixes and those that are always voiceless is neutralized. This study adds to the existing evidence that the neutralization is incomplete: neutralized, alternating plosives tend to have shorter bursts than non-alternating plosi...

INTRODUCTION Injection laryngoplasty (glottis augmentation) is the preferred method in surgical management of unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP). Traditionally, these procedures are performed in the operating room. Nowadays, however, these procedures have moved into the office. AIM To evaluate the voice quality after transoral injection laryngoplasty under local anaesthesia in patients wi...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank to my thesis supervisor Assoc. Prof. Levent M. Arslan for his guidance and support. It was a great pleasure to work with him during this thesis and in all the projects we have been involved in the last three years. I would like to thank Prof. reading my thesis and participating in my thesis committee. I would like to thank to my family and to Aylin for...

A pioneering constructivist approach to building a robot that reproduces a developmental process of infants’ vowel acquisition has been conducted by Yoshikawa et al. [1] inspired by the observation in infant study. They have constructed a mother-infant interaction model with robot learning capability and parrot-like teaching by caregiver. However, the robot has not listened his/her own voice, t...

Fundamental frequency (F(0)) of speech is used to measure the success of voice therapy in male-to-female transgender clients. This study evaluates the relationship between F(0) and patients' happiness with their voice. The study design used was a cross-sectional evaluation of client satisfaction questionnaires and voice recordings from transgender clients. This study was a comparative evaluatio...