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Department of speech language pathology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, Karnataka, India
Research Article
Acoustic Vowel Space in Children and Adults with Stuttering
Author(s): Prajwal Kumar E*
The aim of the study was to investigate the acoustic vowel space area in fluent segments of speech of children and
adults with stuttering. An attempt was also made to explore the influence of intervention and phonetic context on
the vowel space area. A total of 31 native Kannada speaking participants were included in the study. The group with
stuttering included 7 untreated adults, 7 treated adults and 5 treated children. The typical group comprised of 5
children and 7 adults. The stimuli consisted of nine non-words in CVCV combinations which were attached with a
carrier phrase. Non-word CVCV combination consisted of three corner vowels (/a/, /i/, /u/) in three phonetic
contexts (/p/, /t/, /k/). F1 and F2 were measured using PRAAT software and the values were plotted in the
MATLAB software to calculate vowel space area. The results revealed a significant di.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2311-3278.21.9.178