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KMID : 0917520070140040251
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2007 Volume.14 No. 4 p.251 ~ p.260
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Fundamental Frequencies of Normal Children’s Voice in mutational Period
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Kim Sun-Hai
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Abstract
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The structure changes of the vocal folds are related to the fundamental frequencies (F0). In other words, the increasing in vocal fold length and thickness makes the result of dropping in the F0 during the mutational period. The purpose of this study was to investigate F0 of normal children’s voice in mutational period. 360 children (180 boys and 180 girls) were participated in this experiment. The age was ranged from 11 to 16 years. The subjects were asked to produce sustained comer vowels (/a/ /i/ /u/) five times each and the data were analyzed using the MDVP of CSL. The result shows that the F0 are considerably decreased with age and reach to adults’ F0 by 16 years in most cases. In particular, the F0 of male subjects were rapidly decreased between the ages from 12 () to 13 years (), while the F0 of female subjects were slowly changed from the later period of 12 to 16 years old. This result may be used by the meaning of guideline and lead the basic data to differentiate between normal voice and voice disorder.
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KEYWORD
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fundamental frequency, mutational period, MDVP
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