Evaluation of hyper nasality in vowels using voice low tone to high tone ratio

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-52

  Lee, Guo She ^a,b   Wang, Ching Ping ^c   Fu, Sherry ^d  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Institute of Clinical Medicine   (Taiwan)

^c TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hypernasality; Nasalance; Velopharyngeal insufficiency; VLHR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION; FISTULA; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PALATE; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; VOCALIZATION; VOICE; VOWEL; ADULT; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; PHONATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; RHINOMANOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; VIBRATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; ORAL FISTULA; PHONATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; RHINOMANOMETRY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY; VIBRATION; VOICE; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 58149469379     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: 15451569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/07-184.1     Document Type: Article

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