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Published on: September 19, 2015
Temporal characteristics of nasalization in Persian speaker children with and without cleft palate
Kowsar Baghban1, Farhad Torabinezhad2, Negin Moradi3
1Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Hamadan University of Medical Science, Hamadan, Iran; Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
Objectives:
The purpose of this study was to measure and compare temporal patterns of nasalization in Persian children with and without cleft palate in three vowel contexts.
Methods:
A Sample of 14 children with repaired cleft palates with or without cleft lip with moderate to severe hyper nasality and 14 children without cleft palate was chosen as subjects. The subjects were chosen from the ages of 4 to 12 years. The nasal onset interval, nasal offset interval and total nasalization duration were obtained from acoustic waveforms and spectrograms in three vowel contexts using Praat Software. For eliminating the effect of different speed of speech in the cleft palate group and control group, the ratio of nasalization duration was calculated.
Results:
Total nasalization duration are demonstrated by acoustic signals which shows the total significant different temporal patterns in children with cleft palate and without cleft palate and across the vowel contexts (P<0.000).
Conclusions:
Longer nasalization durations in children with cleft palate in comparison to children without cleft palate show the delayed or deviant temporal patterns in children with cleft palate. The duration of nasalization reflecting temporal patterns of the oral-nasal acoustic impedance in children with cleft palate may have an influence on the perception of hyper nasality.
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