Same noses, different nasalance scores: Data from normal subjects and cleft palate speakers for three systems for nasalance analysis

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 163-170

  Bressmann, Tim ^a   Klaiman, Paula ^b   Fischbach, Simone ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cleft palate; Hypernasality; Instrumental analysis; Nasalance; Nasometer; Speech

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NASALANCE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOSE; PHONETICS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 31644444482     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200500270689     Document Type: Article

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