The Project "The dialect of Rahovec and the surrounding area" is fifteen years work dialectologists sociolinguistics issues this area. During description linguistic situation area, we have found meeting points with those whole north-east gege dialect. best matches been in Ratkoc’s areal. Whereas two other areala, Krusha, come across some differentiating points, whether phonetic, morphologic or ...

New developments are presented and discussed for the interactive display and separate measurement of frication and nasality in addition to voice quality. Different clinical problems require different therapeutic and quantitative approaches and these are ideally supported by appropriate combinations of speech pattern elements. Particular use has been made of the laryngograph signal in order to s...

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...

OBJECTIVE One of the main goals in the management of cleft palate is to achieve a good quality of speech. The aim of the prospective study was to evaluate the effectiveness of therapy in patients with velopharyngeal insufficiency treated by simultaneously performed Furlow and Orticochea operations. PATIENTS AND METHODS From May 2007 to May 2008 we treated 14 consecutive patients (6 males and ...

rant artery or cerebellopontine angle masses [2, 3] . The offending vessels are usually arterial structures, such as the anterior or posterior inferior cerebellar arteries [4] . We present the case of a patient with HFS secondary to compression by a giant vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia (VBD) and highlight the possible association of HFS with VBD and type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF-1). A 70-year-ol...