Acoustic Analysis of Stress Contrasts Produced by Hearing-Impaired Children.
| Number | 772 |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Drawer | 14 |
| Entry Date | 11/08/1999 |
| Authors | Murphy, A. L., McGarr, N. S., & Bell-Berti, F. |
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| Publication | The Volta Review, Feb/Mar 1990, 80-91. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0772.pdf |
| Abstract | Using perceptual judgments of 45 16-60 yr old normal-hearing listeners, acoustical measures of amplitude, fundamental frequency (FF), and duration of the utterances of 3 9-29 yr olds with congenital profound hearing loss and 1 16-yr-old normal-hearing control were developed to determine the impact of lexical stress on intelligibility. Although hearing-impaired Ss often used a pattern of increased amplitude, duration, and FF for stressed syllables similar to that used by the normal-hearing S, when this acoustic pattern was not followed, the breakdown pattern was speaker specific. There may be important between-speaker differences in the overall hierarchy of cues adopted to convey lexical stress. |
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