The purpose of this paper is to examine F0, F1 and F2 frequencies of the five English vowels as produced by the HI and those of NH. Results showed that F0 was significantly higher for HI than for NH, and for females than for males. The means of F1 were significantly higher for the females than for males, and higher still for high vowels than for low vowels. By contrast, the means of F2 were significantly higher for the HI group than for NH; F2 was higher for females than for males, and higher for front vowels than back vowels. For the Euclidean distance between vowels on the F1-F2 acoustic space, significant differences for Hearing Level and Gender were found; specifically, the distance was shorter for HI than for NH, and for males than for females. In this study, F0, F2 and F2-F1, not F1, showed the distinctive acoustic characteristic between these two groups.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 2.1. Speakers 2.2. Speech material and procedures 3. Results 3.1. F0 3.2. Formant frequencies 3.3. Euclidean distance between vowels 4. Conclusion and summary References
키워드
영어 모음성별청각장애인기본주파수제1포먼트제2포먼트유클리드 거리English vowelgenderhearing-impairedfundamental frequencyF1 frequencyF2 frequencyEuclidean distance
저자
Kyung-Im Han [ Keimyung University ]
first author
Hye-Jung Park [ Daegu University ]
corresponding author.