INTRODUCTION Maxillectomy is the surgical removal of part or the entire maxillary bone. It is indestined for tumors of the hard palate, nose, maxillary sinus or other tumors that have grown to involve the maxilla. Speech intelligibility and swallowing difficulties are the major concerns after maxillectomy surgery. These are the after effects of inappropriate coupling between the oral and nasal ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this preliminary study was to assess the nature of associations between selected dentofacial morphological variables and respiratory mode as measured by percent nasality (%N) as part of an ongoing longitudinal study. DESIGN Cross-sectional cohort study. SETTING AND SAMPLE POPULATION The Pediatric Clinical Study Center, Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH. Ninety-eight no...

Listeners judged the dissimilarity of pairs of synthesized nasal voices that varied on 3 dimensions. Separate nonmetric multidimensional scaling (MDS) solutions were calculated for each listener and the group. Similar 3-dimensional solutions were derived for the group and each of the listeners, with the group MDS solution accounting for 83% of the total variance in listeners' judgments. Dimensi...

Language-independent and alignment-free phonological and phonemic features were applied for automatic age estimation based on voice and speech properties. 110 persons (average: 75.7 years) read the German version of the text “The North Wind and the Sun”. For comparison with the automatic approach, five listeners estimated the speakers’ age perceptually. Support Vector Regression and feature sel...

In this study, oral and nasalized vowels were analysed based on Hungarian spontaneous speech corpus. Although such results are generally based on analyses of isolated, read-aloud sentences, the authors suggested it is questionable that they are also true of spontaneous types of speech. There is a lack of agreement in the literature as to which measurable acoustic parameters correlate of nasalit...

By-Delattre, Pierre Comparing the Vocalic Features of English, German, Spanish, and French. Pub Date 64 Note-28p. Journal CitIRAL; v2 n2 p71-97 1964 EDRS Price MF -S0.25 HC-S1.50 Descriptors-Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Charts, *Comparative Analysis, English, French, German, Illustrations, Language Instruction, Language Research, Linguistics, *Modern Languages, Phonetic Analysis, ...

English a-tensing has received numerous treatments in the phonological and sociolinguistic literature, but the question of why it occurs (i) at all and (ii) in seemingly unnatural disjunctive phonological environments has not been settled. This paper presents a novel phonetic enhancement account of a-tensing in Philadelphia, New York City and Belfast English. I propose that a-tensing is best un...

Posh accent in British English is associated with upper class. Previous research on poshness has been centred on vocabulary, grammar and phonology, but little is known about the phonetic properties. This study, as part of a larger project, is an attempt to connect posh accent with attractiveness of voice through a common set of dimensions originating from emotional prosody research. Using Vocal...

This paper describes an exploratory analysis on the usefulness of the information made available from Ultrasonic Doppler signal data collected from a single speaker, to detect velum movement associated to European Portuguese nasal vowels. This is directly related to the unsolved problem of detecting nasality in silent speech interfaces. The applied procedure uses Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Im...