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Overall Nasalance Versus Trimmed Selection Of Stable Syllable Repetition, Jackson Peebles
Overall Nasalance Versus Trimmed Selection Of Stable Syllable Repetition, Jackson Peebles
Honors Theses
Objective: To evaluate the difference between nasalance measured using overall nasalance for the full set of syllable repetitions in a speech sample contrasted with syllable repetitions selected (trimmed) from the overall sample.
Method: Participants included 24 males and 34 females between 18 and 30 years of age who participated in a normative study of nasalance in Michigan’s lower peninsula. Participants produced 14 syllable stimuli. Each syllable sequence was repeated at least 8 times. Three trials of each repetition were recorded together with other speech stimuli. Overall nasalance was calculated for each syllable repetition sequence (whole) and compared with the mean …