OBJECTIVES Voice and speech alternations that can occur after total thyroidectomy are usually due to recurrent or superior laryngeal nerve injury. These alterations may also be associated with other extralaryngeal factors, such as neck muscle dysfunction and scar contracture of the neck. We performed a prospective acoustic analysis on speech changes after surgery, in the absence of laryngeal ne...

The present fMRI study used a spelling task to investigate the hypothesis that the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) hosts neuronal representations of whole written words. Such an orthographic word lexicon is posited by cognitive dual-route theories of reading and spelling. In the scanner, participants performed a spelling task in which they had to indicate if a visually presented lett...

The article is devoted to the analysis of voiceless and voiced stop plosives’ realization in speech Russian-speaking children-bilinguals Germany their parents when reading a phonetically representative text aloud. author measures indicator voice delay time relative moment explosion plosive consonants (voicing onset — VOT) bilingual children parents, as she considers it most reliable acoustic fo...

INTRODUCTION To assess potential metabolic and microcirculatory alterations in critically ill patients, near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been used, in combination with a vascular occlusion test (VOT), for the non-invasive measurement of tissue oxygen saturation (StO2), oxygen consumption, and microvascular reperfusion and reactivity. The methodologies for assessing StO2 during a VOT, howev...

Tasks assessing perception of a phonemic contrast based on voice onset time (VOT) and a nonspeech analog of a VOT contrast using tone onset time (TOT) were administered to children (ages 7.5 to 15.9 years) identified as having reading disability (RD; n 5 21), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; n 5 22), comorbid RD and ADHD (n 5 26), or no impairment (NI; n 5 26). Children with RD, ...

Abstract This paper presents a combined analysis of the perception and production study mixed language Light Warlpiri (Australia), which systematically combines elements Warlpiri, Kriol English. The results suggest that phonological inventory consists voiced voiceless series stops affricates, differentiated by Voice Onset Time (VOT) word-initially Constriction Duration (CD) medially, incorporat...

Acoustic evidence suggests that contemporary Seoul Korean may be developing a tonal system, which is arising in the context of a nearly completed change in how speakers use voice onset time (VOT) to mark the language’s distinction among tense, lax and aspirated stops.Data from 36 native speakers of varying ages indicate that while VOT for tense stops has not changed since the 1960s, VOT differe...

The value of time (VOT) is one of the most important values in transportation planning. Although the trip-based models are widely used for estimating the VOT, the trip-based travel model can evaluate the VOT for travelers only. This paper formulates the individual’s choice of whether to travel or not with an activity-based modeling approach. I develop a discrete choice model and a discrete-cont...

Objective: Voice onset time (VOT) is an important parameter of speech that denotes the time interval between consonant onset and the onset of low frequency periodicity generated. In this study we examined the temporal encoding of voice onset time in the cortical auditory evoked response (CAEP) of young children. Methods: Scalp recoded CAEP were measured in 18 children aged from 5-8 participated...

We address the problem of multi-modal object tracking in video and explore various options available for fusing complementary information conveyed by visible (RGB) thermal infrared (TIR) modalities, including pixel-level, feature-level decision-level fusion. Specifically, contrast to existing approaches, we propose develop paradigm combining image fusion at pixel level. At feature level, two di...