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Sampaio, Marília; Masson, Maria Lúcia Vaz; de Paula Soares, Maria Francisca; Bohlender, Jörg Edgar; Brockmann-Bauser, Meike – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Smoothed cepstral peak prominence (CPPS) and harmonics-to-noise ratio (HNR) are acoustic measures related to the periodicity, harmonicity, and noise components of an acoustic signal. To date, there is little evidence about the advantages of CPPS over HNR in voice diagnostics. Recent studies indicate that voice fundamental frequency (F0)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Voice Disorders, Portuguese, Acoustics
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Wechsler, Solange Muglia; Nunes, Carlos Sancineto; Schelini, Patricia Waltz; Pasian, Sonia Regina; Homsi, Silvia Vertoni; Moretti, Lucia; Anache, Alexandra Ayach – School Psychology International, 2010
An adaptation of the standard battery of Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-III) for Brazilian children and youth was investigated. The sample was composed of 1094 students (54 percent girls), ages 7-17, living in Sao Paulo state (91 percent). Items from Brazilian school books as well as from the WJ-III Spanish version…
Descriptors: Syllables, Visual Learning, Cognitive Tests, Auditory Tests
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Rochet-Capellan, Amelie; Laboissiere, Rafael; Galvan, Arturo; Schwartz, Jean-Luc – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: This article investigates jaw-finger coordination in a task involving pointing to a target while naming it with a 'CVCV (e.g., /'papa/) versus CV'CV (e.g., /pa'pa/) word. According to the authors' working hypothesis, the pointing apex (gesture extremum) would be synchronized with the apex of the jaw-opening gesture corresponding to the…
Descriptors: Syllables, Suprasegmentals, Foreign Countries, Portuguese