Stress and intonation in the speech of hearing-impaired Hebrew-speaking children
| Autor: | Moe Bergman, Yishai Tobin, Yael Frank |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
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Linguistics and Language
medicine.medical_specialty Average duration Sociology and Political Science Audiology Intelligibility (communication) 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Speech 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Israel Child Hearing Disorders Hebrew 05 social sciences Linguistics General Medicine language.human_language language Hearing impaired 0305 other medical science Psychology Child Language |
| Zdroj: | Language and speech. 30 |
| ISSN: | 0023-8309 |
| Popis: | This study was designed to compare the acoustic characteristics of lexical stress and intonation in the speech of hearing-impaired Hebrew-speaking children with those of their hearing peers and to relate these characteristics to their intelligibility. Recordings of the speech of 23 hearing-impaired children and 11 matched normally hearing children were subjected to spectrographic analysis and fundamental-frequency measurements and played to a panel of 20 judges. The listeners' judgments of the speech of the hearing-impaired children were supported by the physical analyses. The average fundamental frequency of the hearing-impaired children's speech was significantly higher and the average duration of the vowels significantly longer than for their hearing peers. The relative durations of their stressed to unstressed vowels, however, were similar in the two groups. The findings of the study have implications for training strategies with hearing-impaired children. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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