Acoustic Analysis of the Voiced-Voiceless Distinction in Dutch Tracheoesophageal Speech

Jongmans, P.; Wempe, T.G.; Hilgers, Frans J. M.; Pols, L.C.W.; As‐Brooks, Corina J. van

doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0252)

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“…In alaryngeal speech, one of the problems that affects speech intelligibility is related to vowels 11 . In recognition of the vowels, the FF and durations are important acoustic parameters 5,17 .…”

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“…Many researchers have compared these two methods with respect to speech acceptability, intelligibility, and acoustics [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] . In the alaryngeal speech acoustics, vowels constitute one of the foremost issues 2,[11][12] . Formant frequencies (FF) and durations of vowels are two main parameters searched in this domain.…”

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Temporal and Frequency Characteristics of Turkish Vowels in Laryngectomized Speakers: Preliminary Study

Aydınlı¹,

Kayikci²,

Süslü³

2019

MMJ

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Objective: In the alaryngeal speech acoustics, formant frequencies and durations of vowels are two most fundamental parameters .However, it is not clear if the vocal tract transmission properties and temporal characteristics of vowels vary related to alaryngeal speech type. The main purpose of this study is to compare the formant frequency and duration characteristics of Turkish vowels between the esophageal, tracheoesophageal, and laryngeal speakers. Methods: Formant frequency and duration values of 8 Turkish vowels have been defined and these values were compared between the esophageal, tracheoesophageal, laryngeal speakers. Detection of a formant was based on Linear Predictive Coding and Fast Fourier Transform. Results: Except the vowels /y/ and /i/; F1 and F2 frequency values of alaryngeal speakers were higher than laryngeal speakers both in the initial and final position. Alaryngeal groups' vowel space areas have been diminished. The vowels in the final position had longer durations comparing to their initial position in all groups. Conclusion: The results of this study generally supported the shorter vocal tract and frontedhigher tongue position in Turkish alaryngeal speakers. The minor differences between other studies are thought to arise from the differences in consonantal context and possible coarticulatory effects. Acoustic findings obtained in the present study, indicated that transesophageal speech is more similar to laryngeal speech as compared to esophageal speech. However, further studies including higher number of participants are needed to verify the findings of this study.

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Temporal and Frequency Characteristics of Turkish Vowels in Laryngectomized Speakers: Preliminary Study

Aydınlı¹,

Kayikci²,

Süslü³

2019

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“…CITs are particularly useful for exploratory studies like this one, where it is not clear how independent variables may affect the dependent variable and where there may be complex interactions between variables. Jongmans et al (2010, p. 289) and Levshina (2020, p. 612) explain the recursive partitioning method for CITs: (1) The algorithm determines whether there is any dependence between the independent variables and the dependent variable at a significance of .05. If there is no dependency with any independent variable, the algorithm will stop.…”

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Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage

Jackson

2023

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While monolingual English speakers acquire most pronouns by age 5, acquisition amid prevalent, normative code-mixing, such as in Trinidad, is underexplored. This study examines how Trinidadian 3- to 5-year-olds express third-person subject, object, reflexive and possessive pronouns and factors influencing pronoun choices. Seventy-five preschoolers produced pronouns via a word elicitation task conducted in Trinidadian English Creole and Trinidad and Tobago English. Responses were coded for children’s age, gender, district and socioeconomic status; task language; grammatical gender/number; and response form. Conditional inference trees facilitated statistical analysis. When choices were available, children exhibited variable production, with Creole forms often dominant. Grammatical gender influenced whether English or Creole pronouns were selected. Task language influenced possessive pronoun choices, indicating developing sociolinguistic competence. The non-significance of other variables suggests widespread mixing of English and Creole pronouns. Findings underscore the importance of describing understudied populations, especially where variation is inherent, to ensure accurate language assessment.

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“…For one thing, current understanding of the TE source is not at the same level of detail as the (ab-) normal glottal source. Problems of TE speakers are often concentrated in the area of voicing distinctions and voice stability [11,12,3]. Therefore, it might be preferable to only manipulate specific aspects of the synthetic source in an analysis-synthesis procedure of individual patients to evaluate the effects of individual factors, like voicing distinctions and pitch stability.…”

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Son¹,

Jacobi²,

Hilgers³

2010

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Acoustic Analysis of the Voiced-Voiceless Distinction in Dutch Tracheoesophageal Speech

Abstract: TE and NL speakers differ less in the way the voiced-voiceless distinction is conveyed than expected. Further research is needed to show whether the main acoustic cue is also perceptually most relevant.

Cited by 10 publications

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Temporal and Frequency Characteristics of Turkish Vowels in Laryngectomized Speakers: Preliminary Study

Temporal and Frequency Characteristics of Turkish Vowels in Laryngectomized Speakers: Preliminary Study

Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage

Manipulating treacheoesophageal speech

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