Acoustic analysis of laterality in speech sounds poses numerous obstacles to researchers. Spectral characteristics of such segments vary depending on their phonetic context and shaping of the vocal tract [1]. There are no unambiguous acoustic parameters indicating that a sound is produced laterally. The main alternatives to spectrographic analysis in studying laterality are costly devices, such...

We tested the applicability of the Goettinger Hoarseness Diagram (GHD) for quantitative evaluation of voice disorders after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and compared the obtained data with those from established voice analysis systems such as the Multi-Dimensional Voice Program (MDVP), electroglottography (EGG) and perceptual ratings using sustained vowel productions from 10 patients wit...

Conflict of interest: non-existent requires of the motor information of the pathways for articulation and sensory information. Sensory information is obtained through auditory feedback, which also interferes with the correction and improvement of muscle control of the organs involved in vocal production3. Due to the lack of kinesthetic feedback presented by these children, the vowels tend to be...

This paper is a report on field work in progress on two Austronesian language groups: the Rejang, spoken in Bengkulu and South Sumatra Provinces of Indonesia; and h /bidayəh/ [bidayɨh]) spoken in the Serian District, Sarawak, Malaysia.1 Of particular interest is a change raising PMP *-aC > -/əC/ in Bukar-Sadong, but not before a final velar: e.g. *bulan > /burən/ „moon‟ but *anak > /anak/ „chil...

This paper presents a simple and easy-to-use method of creating time-varying signal the degree nasalization in vowels, generated from acoustic features measured oral nasalized vowel contexts. The is presented for separate models constructed using two sets features: (1) an uninformed set 13 Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) (2) combination MFCCs phonetically informed 20 nasality derive...

The relationship between constraints on surface forms and operations that alter representations is of central interest in phonological theory. This squib presents a case of diverse “repairs” in response to a marked structure—labial . . . labial sequences—created by um-infixation in stems beginning with (or, in some cases, merely containing) labial consonants in Austronesian languages. We review...

The present study required raters (casting directors) to evaluate the belt voice quality of 20 musical theater majors who were proficient in the singing style referred to as belting. Two specified vocalizes and six short excerpts from the belting repertoire were used for rating purposes. The raters were asked to judge the belters on a set of seven perceptual parameters (loudness, vibrato, ring,...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to analyze speech outcome for patients with advanced oral/oropharyngeal cancer treated with reconstructive surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy. METHODS Speech tests (communicative suitability, intelligibility, articulation, nasality, and consonant errors) were performed in a control group and in patients before treatment (n = 76), and 6 months (n = 51) and 12...

The present study examined the effects of boundary strength and stress on nasal coarticulation with neighboring segments. Acoustic and nasal airflow data were recorded from four speakers as they produced intervocalic fricative-nasal and nasalfricative sequences that spanned a word-internal boundary or a word boundary under two different stress conditions. Although neither stress nor boundary af...