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The Effects of COVID‐19 on Voice

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic had profound effects on vocal health, impacting both infected individuals, professional voice users and essential workers. The objective of this paper was to explore the multifaceted nature of dysphonia associated with COVID‐19, arising from both direct and indirect consequences of the pandemic.
Mausumi Syamal
wiley   +1 more source

Acoustic Analyses of L1 and L2 Vowel Interactions in Mandarin–Cantonese Late Bilinguals

Acoustics
While the focus of bilingual research is frequently on simultaneous or early bilingualism, the interactions between late bilinguals’ first language (L1) and second language (L2) have rarely been studied previously.
Yike Yang
doaj   +1 more source

AWALAN ME-/MEN-/MENG- + S- ATAU MENG-?

Dialektika: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia, 2017
: Description of morphological processes involving the verbal prefix me-/meN- in the Indonesian grammars have a long story. Traditionally, me- was described as changing in its form into meng- when followed by a base which begins with vowels, k, g, h, and
Djoko Kentjono
doaj   +1 more source

Finding Natural Classes of Consonants and Vowels in Qur"an Rhyme [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2017
The present study is aimed to find the natural classes in final rhyme of some verses in the Holy Qur"an. Many verses in the Qur"an have the final rhymes ending in the same consonants and vowels; some others don"t have similar consonants or vowels in the ...
Aliyeh Kord Zafaranlu Kambuziya, Fatemeh Shahverdi Shahraki   +1 more
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Vowel duration issue in Civili [PDF]

, 2009
The main goal of this article is to define the problem of vowel duration in Civili (H12a). It shows that the so-called Civili vowel-length desperately needs to be re-examined, because previous works on the sound system of this language hardly explain a ...
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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African American voices in Atlanta [PDF]

, 2015
Survey research in Atlanta suggests that the usual national generalizations about race and language need to be examined in the light of local evidence.
Kretzschmar Jr., William A.
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Spasmodic Dysphonia

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Spasmodic dysphonia is a laryngeal dystonia that can present as adductor, abductor, or mixed types, with or without tremor. The etiology is not understood fully. Comprehensive evaluation is required to establish the diagnosis. Treatments include voice therapy, medications, botulinum toxin injection, laryngeal surgery, deep brain stimulation ...
Aaron J. Jaworek, Robert T. Sataloff
wiley   +1 more source

A New Approach to the Formant Measuring Problem

Proceedings, 2019
Formants are characteristic frequency components in human speech that are caused by resonances in the vocal tract during speech production. They are of primary concern in acoustic phonetics and speech recognition.
Marnix Van Soom, Bart de Boer
doaj   +1 more source

Verification of feature regions for stops and fricatives in natural speech [PDF]

, 2010
The presence of acoustic cues and their importance in speech perception have long remained debatable topics. In spite of several studies that exist in this eld, very little is known about what exactly humans perceive in speech.
Menon, Anjali I.
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Reducing Audible Spectral Discontinuities [PDF]

, 2001
In this paper, a common problem in diphone synthesis is discussed, viz., the occurrence of audible discontinuities at diphone boundaries. Informal observations show that spectral mismatch is most likely the cause of this phenomenon.We first set out to ...
Klabbers, Esther, Veldhuis, Raymond
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