An acoustic study of coarticulation in the speech of greek adults with normal hearing and hearing impairment

Abstract

Research has shown that speech acquired in profound hearing loss presents differences on both the segmental and the suprasegmental levels compared with normal hearing speech. Recent studies focus on the dynamic aspects of hearing impaired speech, i.e., coarticulation as coproduction of gestures, but findings are variable. Although this issue has received a lot of attention in the English literature, phonetic research in Greek is still scant, this being the first study of coarticulation in Greek hearing impaired speech. The main aim of the present thesis is the acoustic exploration of (a) vowel-to-vowel and consonant-to-vowel coarticulation in degree and/or temporal extent and (b) static characteristics such as vowel space, distribution and duration of the three point vowels, in the speech of Greek young adult male and female speakers with normal hearing (NH) and hearing impairment (HI). The aforementioned dynamic and static acoustic properties are investigated in relation to certain va ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/28556
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/28556
ND
28556
Alternative title
Ακουστική μελέτη της συνάρθρωσης στην ομιλία ελλήνων/ίδων ενηλίκων με φυσιολογική ακοή και με βαρηκοΐα-κώφωση
Author
Sfakianaki, Anna (Father's name: Myron)
Date
2012
Degree Grantor
Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Committee members
Νικολαΐδου Αικατερίνη
Οκαλίδου Αρετή
Παπαναστασίου Ιωάννης
Λαμπροπούλου Βενέττα
Μπαλτατζάνη Μαρία
Παπαζαχαρίου Δημήτριος
Φουράκης Μαργαρίτης
Discipline
Humanities and the Arts
Languages and Literature
Medical and Health Sciences
Health Sciences
Keywords
Hearing imprairment; Acoustic analysis of speech; Spectrography; Formants F1 and F2 and vowel duration; Acoustic characteristics of greek vowels; Magnitude and temporal extent of coarticulation; Vowel-to-vowel and consonant-to-vowel coarticulation; Speech intelligibility
Country
Greece
Language
English
Description
xi, 529 σ., tbls., fig., ind.
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