1. The relationship between nasalance and nasality in children with cleft palate.
- Author
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Watterson T, McFarlane SC, and Wright DS
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Cleft Palate complications, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Phonetics, Speech Articulation Tests, Speech Perception, Speech Production Measurement, Verbal Behavior, Voice Disorders etiology, Cleft Palate physiopathology, Voice Disorders physiopathology
- Abstract
This study correlated measures of nasalance computed by the Nasometer with listener judgments of nasality. The subjects were 25 children with craniofacial disorders who spoke three passages, each containing a different proportion of nasal consonants. The results showed a significant but modest correlation between nasalance and nasality when nasal consonants (/m, n, eta/) were not included in the speech passage. When nasal consonants were included in the passage nasalance was unrelated to judgments of hypernasality.
- Published
- 1993
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