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Carl, Micalle; Icht, Michal – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Developmental dysarthria is a motor speech impairment commonly characterized by varying levels of reduced speech intelligibility. The relationship between intelligibility deficits and acoustic vowel space among these individuals has long been noted in the literature, with evidence of vowel centralization (e.g., in English and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech Impairments, Correlation, Auditory Perception
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Ma, Estella P.-M.; Tse, Mandy M.-S.; Momenian, Mohammad; Pu, Dai; Chen, Felix F. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of dysphonic voice on speech intelligibility in Cantonese-speaking adults. Method: Speech recordings from three speakers with dysphonia secondary to phonotrauma and three speakers with healthy voices were presented to 30 healthy listeners (15 men and 15 women; M[subscript age] = 22.7 years) under…
Descriptors: Voice Disorders, Trauma, Auditory Stimuli, Intelligibility
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Yang, Jing; Xu, Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the acoustic profile and to evaluate the intelligibility of vowel productions in prelingually deafened, Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: Twenty-five children with CIs and 20 age-matched children with normal hearing (NH) were recorded producing a list of Mandarin…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Deafness, Vowels, Acoustics
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Macho-Stadler, Erica; Elejalde-Garcia, Maria Jesus – Physics Teacher, 2020
The interest in achieving improved acoustical conditions in classrooms has increased in the last years. Some experiments on acoustics phenomena using smartphone applications appear in the recent bibliography. In this paper, we present a proposal for active learning about room acoustics for high school and undergraduate students. Students work on…
Descriptors: Measurement, Acoustics, Classroom Environment, Handheld Devices
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Sinagra, Chloe; Wiener, Seth – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Face masks affect the transmission of speech and obscure facial cues. Here, we examine how this reduction in acoustic and facial information affects a listener's understanding of speech prosody. English sentence pairs that differed in their intonational (statement/question) and emotional (happy/sad) prosody were created. These pairs were recorded…
Descriptors: Intonation, Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Human Body
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Knowles, Thea; Adams, Scott G.; Page, Allyson; Cushnie-Sparrow, Daryn; Jog, Mandar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This study compared the performance of three amplification devices hypothesized to improve speech communication in individuals with hypophonia (HP), as well as to identify individuals' device preferences. Method: Twenty-two individuals with HP and their primary communication partners participated in a cross-over design study comparing…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Speech Impairments, Speech Communication, Outcomes of Treatment
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Borrie, Stephanie A.; Wynn, Camille J.; Berisha, Visar; Barrett, Tyson S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: We proposed and tested a causal instantiation of the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework, linking acoustics, intelligibility, and communicative participation in the context of dysarthria. Method: Speech samples and communicative participation scores were collected…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Speech Impairments, Intelligibility, Correlation
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Hong, Szu-Wei; Chan, Roger W. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study examined the acoustic properties of Taiwanese (Southern Min) lexical tones produced in esophageal speech (ES) and pneumatic artificial laryngeal speech (PAL), including onset fundamental frequency (F0), slope of F0 contour, duration, and amplitude (intensity) of the vowel portion of syllables carrying seven Taiwanese tones.…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech Communication, Intonation, Vowels
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Heinrich, Antje – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Listening to speech in a noisy background is difficult for everyone. While such listening has historically been considered mainly in the context of auditory processing, the role of cognition has attracted considerable interest in recent years. This has been particularly true in the context of life-span research and the comparison of younger and…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Acoustics, Speech Communication, Auditory Perception
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Ishikawa, Keiko; Boyce, Suzanne; Kelchner, Lisa; Powell, Maria Golla; Schieve, Heidi; de Alarcon, Alessandro; Khosla, Sid – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine the effect of background noise on the intelligibility of dysphonic speech and to examine the relationship between intelligibility in noise and an acoustic measure of dysphonia--cepstral peak prominence (CPP). Method: A study of speech perception was conducted using speech samples from 6 adult speakers…
Descriptors: Dysphonia, Voice Disorders, Correlation, Mutual Intelligibility
Ruqayyah Althubyani – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study aimed to investigate the role that phonetic convergence plays in the acquisition of L2 segments. In particular, it examined whether phonetic convergence towards native speakers could help Arabic-speaking second-language (L2) learners of English improve their pronunciation of four problematic English segments (/p, v, [open-mid front…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Phonetics
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Gijbels, Liesbeth; Yeatman, Jason D.; Lalonde, Kaylah; Lee, Adrian K. C. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: It is generally accepted that adults use visual cues to improve speech intelligibility in noisy environments, but findings regarding visual speech benefit in children are mixed. We explored factors that contribute to audiovisual (AV) gain in young children's speech understanding. We examined whether there is an AV benefit to…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Visual Stimuli, Auditory Stimuli, Cues
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Skarnitzl, Radek; Cermák, Petr; Šturm, Pavel; Obstová, Zora; Hricsina, Jan – Second Language Research, 2022
The use of linking or glottalization contributes to the characteristic sound pattern of a language, and the use of one in place of the other may affect a speaker's comprehensibility and fluency in certain contexts. In this study, native speakers of Czech, a language that is associated with a frequent use of glottalization in vowel-initial word…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication, Native Speakers
Xin Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over the past few decades, there has been considerable effort to find the mechanisms through which adult listeners can accommodate the rampant phonetic variation in natural speech. My dissertation concerns one source of variability: phonetic variation in speech produced by individuals with foreign accents. Mounting evidence shows that listeners…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Pronunciation, Language Variation
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Ji, Caili; Galvin, John J.; Chang, Yi-ping; Xu, Anting; Fu, Qian-Jie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the understanding of English sentences produced by native (English) and nonnative (Spanish) talkers by listeners with normal hearing (NH) and listeners with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: Sentence recognition in noise was measured in adult subjects with CIs and subjects with NH, all of whom were…
Descriptors: Sentences, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Spanish Speaking
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