This aerodynamic study investigates velum activity during the production of nasal and pharyngeal consonants, using airflow, and during the production of vowels adjacent to nasal and pharyngeal consonants, using airflow and nasalance, in Moroccan Arabic (MA). The results indicate that the velum is lowered during the production of pharyngeals and that this overlaps on adjacent vowels. However, na...

OBJECTIVE The main purpose of this study is to determine the treatment effectiveness of pharyngeal flap surgery by measuring speech outcome 1 year after surgery. The authors hypothesized that flap surgery is an effective technique for velopharyngeal inadequacy resulting in improved intelligibility, decreased hypernasality and nasalance scores and normal voice characteristics. PATIENTS AND MET...

OBJECTIVES Speech intelligibility is severely affected in children with congenital profound hearing loss. Hypernasality is a problem commonly encountered in their speech. Auditory information received from cochlear implants is expected to be far superior to that from hearing aids. Our study aimed at comparing the percentages of nasality in the speech of the cochlear implantees with hearing aid ...

Objective: The main purpose of this study is to determine the treatment effectiveness of pharyngeal flap surgery by measuring speech outcome 1 year after surgery. The authors hypothesized that flap surgery is an effective technique for velopharyngeal inadequacy resulting in improved intelligibility, decreased hypernasality and nasalance scores and normal voice characteristics. Patients and Meth...

Resonance is one of the most prominent characteristics of human speech. Problems affecting nasal resonance are widely reported in speech pathologies, causing severe perturbations in subjects speech intelligibility. Nasal resonance values can be obtained through different instrumental methods, however, the nasometer proved to be an indirect and objective assessment instrument which results have ...

BACKGROUND Nasometry has supplemented perceptual assessments of nasality, using speech stimuli, which are devoid of nasal consonants. However, such speech stimuli are not representative of conversational speech. A weak relationship has been found in previous studies between perceptual ratings of hypernasality and nasalance scores for passages containing nasal consonants. AIMS This study aimed...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to determine whether there are dialectal and gender-related differences in nasalance scores for normal Japanese speakers. MATERIALS Sixty-eight volunteers consisting of 31 males (age 23.8+/-2.0) and 37 females (age 23.2+/-2.5) were included in this study. They had no diseases affecting speech, and lived in the same region until high school from birt...

OBJECTIVES This study investigates whether a change in speaking voice focus affects the oral-nasal balance. The investigation was undertaken with different phonetic materials in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, which features phonological and phonetic vowel nasalization. METHODS Ten females read oral, balanced oral-nasal, and nasal loaded sentences in their normal voice, and with a backward ...

The present paper proposed a methodology of acoustic sound pattern in the experimental analysis of tones, vowels, and consonants which include plosives, fricatives and nasalance analysis in human languages.

Assimilation nasality patterns for high, mid and low vowels were studied in two dialects of North American English (Canadian & southeastern American). Native speakers (n=24) produced CVC, NVC, CVN and NVN tokens. The vowel portion of each oral and nasal acoustical signal was transduced by a Nasometer, digitized, and the degree of nasalance established as: % nasalance = nasal rms/(nasal + oral r...