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Vowel spaces in Swedish adolescents with cochlear implants

Löfqvist, Anders LU ; Sahlén, Birgitta LU and Ibertsson, Tina LU (2010) In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128(5). p.3064-3069
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This paper examines vowel production in Swedish adolescents with cochlear implants. Twelve adolescents with cochlear implants and 11 adolescents with normal hearing participated. Measurements were made of the first and second formants in all the nine long Swedish vowels. The values in hertz were bark-transformed, and two measures of the size of the vowel space were obtained. The first of them was the average Euclidean distance in the F1-F2 plane between the nine vowels and the mean F1 and F2 values of all the vowels. The second was the mean Euclidean distance in the F1-F2 plane between all the vowels. The results showed a significant difference for both vowel space measures between the two groups of... (More)
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This paper examines vowel production in Swedish adolescents with cochlear implants. Twelve adolescents with cochlear implants and 11 adolescents with normal hearing participated. Measurements were made of the first and second formants in all the nine long Swedish vowels. The values in hertz were bark-transformed, and two measures of the size of the vowel space were obtained. The first of them was the average Euclidean distance in the F1-F2 plane between the nine vowels and the mean F1 and F2 values of all the vowels. The second was the mean Euclidean distance in the F1-F2 plane between all the vowels. The results showed a significant difference for both vowel space measures between the two groups of adolescents. The cochlear implant users had a smaller space than the adolescents with normal hearing. In general, the size of the vowel space showed no correlations with measures of receptive and productive linguistic abilities. However, the results of an identification test showed that the listeners made more confusions of the vowels produced by speakers who had a small mean distance in the F1-F2 plane between all the vowels. (Less)
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Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
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  author       = {{Löfqvist, Anders and Sahlén, Birgitta and Ibertsson, Tina}},
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  number       = {{5}},
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  publisher    = {{American Institute of Physics (AIP)}},
  series       = {{Journal of the Acoustical Society of America}},
  title        = {{Vowel spaces in Swedish adolescents with cochlear implants}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3466850}},
  doi          = {{10.1121/1.3466850}},
  volume       = {{128}},
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