|
KMID : 1022420190110040109
|
|
Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2019 Volume.11 No. 4 p.109 ~ p.116
|
|
|
A comparison study of the characteristics of pauses and breath groups during paragraph reading for normal female adults with and without voice disorders
|
|
Pyo Hwa-Young
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
This study was conducted to identify the characteristics of pauses and breath groups made by normal adults and patients with voice disorders while reading a paragraph. Forty normal female adults and forty female patients with a functional voice disorder (18-45 yrs.) read the “Gaeul” paragraph with the “Running Speech” protocol of the Phonatory Aerodynamic System (PAS), by which the pauses with or without inspiration and between or within syntactic words and breath groups were analyzed. The number of pauses with inspiration was found to be higher in the patient group, but the number of pauses without inspiration was higher in the normal group. The rate of syntactic word boundaries with pauses with inspiration was higher in the patient group, while the number of syllables per breath group was higher in the normal group. As these results can be explained by patients' poor breath support due to glottal insufficiency, the question of whether voice disorder patients use their pauses and breath groups properly should be considered carefully in evaluation and intervention.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
voice disorder, aerodynamic analysis, pause, breath group
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|