Vowel spaces in Swedish adolescents with cochlear implants
| Autor: | Tina Ibertsson, Birgitta Sahlén, Anders Löfqvist |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Acoustics and Ultrasonics Acoustics medicine.medical_treatment Audiology Models Biological behavioral disciplines and activities Speech Disorders Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Phonetics Cochlear implant Hertz Vowel otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Phonation Language musculoskeletal neural and ocular physiology Speech Intelligibility Significant difference Age Factors Cochlear Implantation Speech Articulation Tests Euclidean distance Formant behavior and behavior mechanisms Female Psychology psychological phenomena and processes |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128:3064-3069 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1121/1.3466850 |
| Popis: | This paper examines vowel production in Swedish adolescents with cochlear implants. Twelve adolescents with cochlear implants and 11 adolescents with normal hearing participated. Measurements were made of the first and second formants in all the nine long Swedish vowels. The values in hertz were bark-transformed, and two measures of the size of the vowel space were obtained. The first of them was the average Euclidean distance in the F1-F2 plane between the nine vowels and the mean F1 and F2 values of all the vowels. The second was the mean Euclidean distance in the F1-F2 plane between all the vowels. The results showed a significant difference for both vowel space measures between the two groups of adolescents. The cochlear implant users had a smaller space than the adolescents with normal hearing. In general, the size of the vowel space showed no correlations with measures of receptive and productive linguistic abilities. However, the results of an identification test showed that the listeners made more confusions of the vowels produced by speakers who had a small mean distance in the F1-F2 plane between all the vowels. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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