F2/F1 vowel quadrilateral area in young children with and without dysarthria

Authors

  • C.M. Higgins Dept. of Speech Pathol. and Audiol., University of Alberta, 2-70 Corbett Hall, Edmonton, Alta. T6G 2G4, Canada
  • M.M. Hodge Dept. of Speech Pathol. and Audiol., University of Alberta, 2-70 Corbett Hall, Edmonton, Alta. T6G 2G4, Canada

Keywords:

Acoustics, Diseases, Neurology, Sound recording, Speech analysis, Statistical methods, Dysarthria, Formants, Vowel quadrilateral area, Young children

Abstract

A study was conducted to determine if use of a lognHz scale would eliminate the effect of vocal tract size on vowel area across a broad age range of talkers and also be sensitive to potentially smaller vowel areas of dysarthric individuals. For this purpose, recordings produced by six 3 year-old children, six 5 year-old children and six young women, all with normal speech development, and six 5 year-old children with dysarthria were analyzed. It was found that vowel area, when measured in Hz2 and logn Hz2, decreases in size as age increases, suggesting that a lognHz scale does not normalize age differences in F2 and F1 vowel area.

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Published

2001-09-01

How to Cite

1.
Higgins C, Hodge M. F2/F1 vowel quadrilateral area in young children with and without dysarthria. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 2001 Sep. 1 [cited 2024 Sep. 12];29(3):66-7. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/1386

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 3 (2001)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

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