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KMID : 0917520020090030133
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2002 Volume.9 No. 3 p.133 ~ p.140
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The Effects of Nasalance on Quality of Voice
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Abstract
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The purpose of this sutdy was to investigate any changes in acoustic qualities of voice as a function of nasalance, in order to determine the relationship between vocal quality and nasalance. Twenty normal subjects (10 males and 10 females) vocalized /a/, /a´/, and /a η/. The changes in nasalance and acoustic characteristics of the voice were analyzed by Nasometer (Model 6200-3, Kay Elemetrics, co) and Dr. Speech 4.0 (Tiger Electronics, Co), respectively. One-way ANOVA was used to examine any changes in jitter, shimmer, harmonics-to-noise ratio, and normalized noise energy relative to the nasalance in 3 types of vocalization.
The Person r correlation coefficient was used to identify the relationship between the nasalance and the vocal quality. There was no statistically significant changes in jitter, shimmer, HNR and NNE. Tfhe jitter, however, tended to increase as the nasalance socre increased, compared to the other vocal parameters. In addition, the NNe showed an increase of /a´/ and /a η/, more on the /a η/. Thus, it was speculated that NNE could be used to identify or screen reasonant with hypernasality
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