Vocal Fry and Vowel Height in Simulated Room Acoustics

Lady Catherine Cantor-Cutiva; Pasquale Bottalico; Carlos Toshinori Ishi; Eric James Hunter

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Vocal Fry and Vowel Height in Simulated Room Acoustics

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Vocal Fry and Vowel Height in Simulated Room Acoustics

Lady Catherine Cantor-Cutiva, Pasquale Bottalico, Carlos Toshinori Ishi and Eric James Hunter

Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica, Vol.69(3), pp.118-124

01/01/2017

DOI: 10.1159/000481282

PMCID: PMC6501773

PMID: 29462822

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Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of room acoustics in the relationship between vowel height and vocal fry. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Participants (college students, n = 40) read the first six sentences of "The Rainbow Passage" under nine simulated room acoustic conditions. Using two words with low vowels (act, pot) and two words with high vowels (shape, strikes) preceding a voiceless stop, the presence/absence of vocal fry was assessed using an automatic detection script. Generalized estimation equations were used to investigate the relationship between percentage of vocal fry, vowel height, and room acoustics. Results: The percentage of vocal fry was significantly higher for the low-height vowels compared with the high-height vowels (beta = 1.21; standard error = 0.35), and for pink background noise present (beta = 0.89; standard error = 0.35) compared with the condition without artificial noise added. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that young college students are more likely to produce fry phonation when producing low-height vowels under pink background noise condition compared with no noise conditions and high-height vowels. This result is of special interest for voice clinicians when designing therapy plans and vocal assessment protocols with fry-like components. (C) 2018 S. Karger AG, Basel

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Title: Subtitle: Vocal Fry and Vowel Height in Simulated Room Acoustics
Creators: Lady Catherine Cantor-Cutiva - Michigan State University
Pasquale Bottalico - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Carlos Toshinori Ishi - Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Eric James Hunter - Michigan State University
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica, Vol.69(3), pp.118-124
DOI: 10.1159/000481282
PMID: 29462822
PMCID: PMC6501773
NLM abbreviation: Folia Phoniatr Logop
ISSN: 1021-7762
eISSN: 1421-9972
Publisher: Karger
Number of pages: 7
Grant note: R01DC012315 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) R01DC012315 / National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Language: English
Date published: 01/01/2017
Academic Unit: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Record Identifier: 9984446421702771

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