Some Voice Fundamental Frequency Characteristics of Oral Reading and Spontaneous Speech by Hard-of-Hearing Young Women

1982 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki Horii
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Frequency Characteristics ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Negative Skewness ◽  
Voice Fundamental Frequency

Fundamental frequency (f o ,) characteristics of 12 hard-of-hearing young women were compared with those of 12 hard-hearing control subjects during oral reading and spontaneous speech. The normal-hearing individuals almost always used greater mean f o and variability for oral reading than for spontaneous speech, but the hard-of-hearing subjects did not. On the average, greater f o , means and smaller f o standard deviations were observed for the hard-hearing group than for the control group, regardless of the speaking conditions. In addition,f o distributions of the hard-of hearing subjects were characterized by negative skewness whereas those of the normal-hearing subjects were positively skewed.

Spontaneous Speaking Fundamental Frequency of 6-Year-Old Black Children

1988 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 723-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marica C. Wheat ◽  
Amelia I. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Frequency Characteristics ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
White Children ◽  
Mean Frequency ◽  
Physical Variables ◽  
Speaking Fundamental Frequency

The fundamental vocal frequency characteristics were measured from 50 male and 50 female Black 6-year-old children during prompted spontaneous speech. Boys had a mean fundamental frequency of 219.50 Hz, with a mean range of 134.80–298.70 Hz. Girls had a mean fundamental frequency (F 0 ) of 211.30 Hz and a mean frequency range of 137.60–297.50 Hz. No significant differences in mean or range values were found as a function of speaker sex. Nonsignificant relationships were found between physical variables of speaker height and weight and these F 0 measures for either sex and for the speaker group combined. The results of the present study were compared to previous research concerning the speaking fundamental vocal frequency of White children.

A Comparison of Habitual and Derived Optimal Voice Fundamental Frequency Values in Normal Young Adult Speakers

1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthea I. Britto ◽  
Philip C. Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Vocal Training ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Voice Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Normal Adults

The purpose of this study was to compare habitual (modal) and derived optimal pitch (fundamental frequency) values in 40 young adults. The individual habitual F 0 values of 20 male and 20 female nonsmokers with normal larynges, normal voices, and no history of laryngeal pathology or formal vocal training were obtained from high-quality recordings of spontaneous monologue, oral reading, and sustained phonation. Optimal fundamental frequency (F 0 ) was derived from each individual's phonational range using the 25% Method (Fairbanks, 1960; Pronovost, 1942). Using correlative analyses, the predicted optimal F 0 values that were derived were compared to habitual F 0 values for the male and female speaker groups, and for specific vocal tasks used to identify habitual F 0 (i.e., spontaneous monologue vs. oral reading vs. sustained phonation). Results indicate that habitual F 0 was not consistent with derived optimal F 0 values using the 25% Method; rather, habitual F 0 in our normal adults occurred between 8% and 10% up the phonational range from basal F 0 . Clinical implications of these data and the related limitations associated with the concept of optimal pitch (F 0 ) are discussed.

Linguistic Performance of Hard-of-Hearing and Normal-Hearing Children

1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Wilcox ◽  
Henry Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Grammatical Form ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Repetition Task

A repetition task was employed to investigate syntactic patterns of hard-of-hearing children. The subjects were 11 students enrolled in public-school classes for the hard-of-hearing. A matching control group of normal-hearing children was selected from the same schools. It was found that both groups tended to use grammatical constructions rather than nongrammatical approximations. The hard-of-hearing group, however, achieved significantly lower means in each grammatical form tested, and tended to substitute simpler forms. This lower level of performance seemed to represent a difference of degree rather than kind, as the experimental group displayed linguistic performance similar to the control group but showed a general delay in language development.

Speaking Fundamental Frequency and Rate Characteristics of Adult Female Schizophrenics

1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Saxman ◽  
Kenneth W. Burk
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Patient Group ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Frequency Deviation ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Sentence Reading ◽  
Frequency Level ◽  
Oral Reading Rate ◽  
Normal Women ◽  
Speaking Fundamental Frequency

Selected speaking characteristics of 37 hospitalized female schizophrenic reaction patients were compared with those of a control group of 22 normal women. Tape recorded samples of oral reading and impromptu speaking were analyzed for mean fundamental frequency level and mean fundamental frequency deviation. The oral reading samples were further analyzed for mean overall and mean sentence reading rates. The patient group was found to use a significantly larger fundamental frequency deviation during oral reading and a significantly slower oral reading rate. Mean fundamental frequency level for the patient group was somewhat higher than that of the control group but not significantly so. Variations in the extent of differences between the patient group and the control group were found as a function of diagnostic subclassification and severity of psychiatric involvement of the patients.

Fundamental Frequency Characteristics of Young Black Adults

1982 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia I. Hudson ◽  
Anthony Holbrook
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Lower Limit ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Frequency Characteristics ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Central Tendency ◽  
Black Adults ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
The Mean

The purpose of this study was to determine the speaking fundamental vocal frequency of young Black adults during prompted spontaneous speech and reading and to compare the results with published data for White subjects of comparable age. Subjects were 100 men and 100 women volunteers, ranging in age from 18 to 29 years. Central tendency and dispersion values were calculated from data obtained with a fundamental frequency analyzer (FLORIDA I). The mean modal fundamental vocal frequency for spontaneous speaking was 108.05 Hz for men and 188.85 Hz for women. The mean range was 80.70–166.65 Hz (6.27 tones) for men and 132.55–270.80 Hz (6.18 tones) for women. The men showed smaller excursions from the mean mode to the lower limit of the mean range (27.35 Hz, 2.52 tones) than from the mean mode to the upper limit of the mean range (58.60 Hz, 3.75 tones). The women had a range of 81.95 Hz above and 56.30 Hz below the mean mode but approximately equal tonal intervals above and below (3.12 and 3.06, respectively). A comparison of prompted spontaneous speech to reading for the same subjects indicated that the mean modal fundamental vocal frequency was significantly lower and the mean range was significantly greater for speaking than tier reading. Both men and women had a mean speaking range of one octave. In comparison to published values for young White adult subjects, the Black subjects ill this study had a lower mean fundamental vocal frequency.

Intraword Variability in Children With Cochlear Implants: The Long-Term Development up to 5 Years of Age and a Comparison With Children With Normal Hearing

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 706-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolien Faes ◽  
Steven Gillis
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Production Group ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Similar Factor ◽  
Whole Word

Purpose This study evaluates intraword or token-to-token variability in the spontaneous speech of Dutch-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) longitudinally up to 5 years of age in comparison with intraword variability in age-matched peers with normal hearing (NH). Method Spontaneous speech samples of 9 children with CI were collected longitudinally up to age 5. The data of the NH control group consisted of cross-sectional recordings. Children's word productions were categorized into 4 response types of the variability score (consistent correct, consistent incorrect, variable with hits, variable with no hits), and the proportion of whole-word variation (PWV) was calculated. Results PWV was high in both groups of children but decreased with age. All response types of the variability score appeared in both groups. Children with CI were significantly more variable than their peers with NH up to age 4, but this difference has disappeared by age 5. Longer words had a higher PWV and were more often consistent incorrect and variable. Conclusions Intraword variability was characteristic of children with CI's spontaneous speech productions as it was in children with NH, and a similar factor (word length) affected variability in production. Group comparisons showed higher rates of intraword variability in children with CI, but they seemed to catch up with their peers with NH by age 5.

Personality, Stuttering Severity, and Age

1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Prins
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Multiple Correlation ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Communicative Disorders ◽  
Multiple Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Experimental Group

Sixty-six male stutterers between the ages of 8 and 21 years were given the California Test of Personality and evaluated for stuttering severity during oral reading and spontaneous speech. Twenty-three subjects with other communicative disorders served as a control group. Simple and multiple correlation coefficients were computed among scores of personality, speech, and age. There were no significant correlations to indicate a relationship between personality maladjustment and increased age or stuttering severity. In the experimental group an interesting disparity was found between Social Standards (60th percentile) and Social Skills (30th percentile). Contrary to usual assumptions, however, signs of maladjustment were more prevalent among subjects with disorders of speech other than stuttering.

Effects of Laryngeal Topical Anesthesia on Voice Fundamental Frequency Perturbation

1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sorensen ◽  
Yoshiyuki Horii ◽  
Rebecca Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Frequency Control ◽  
Topical Anesthesia ◽  
Proprioceptive Feedback ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Voice Fundamental Frequency

Fundamental frequency perturbation (jitter) during sustained vowel phonations of speakers under topical anesthesia of the larynx was investigated for five adult males. The results showed that the average jitter was significantly greater under the anesthesia than normal conditions, and that the jitter difference between the two conditions was more prominent at high frequency phonations. Implications of these data for tactile and proprioceptive feedback in phonatory frequency control are discussed.

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