Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

  • Volume 39
  • /
  • Pages.9.1-9.5
  • /
  • 2017
  • /
  • 2288-8101(pISSN)
  • /
  • 2288-8586(eISSN)
Korean Association of Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (대한악안면성형재건외과학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

The comparative study of resonance disorders for Vietnamese and Korean cleft palate speakers using nasometer

  • Shin, Yu-Jeong (Department of Speech-Language Therapy, Howon University) ;
  • Kim, Yongsoo (Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Institute of Oral Bioscience, School of Dentistry, Clinical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Gi (Department of Speech-Language Therapy, Graduate School, Research Institute of Speech Sciences, Chonbuk National University)
  • Received : 2016.11.28
  • Accepted : 2017.02.19
  • Published : 2017.12.31
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

Background: Nasalance is used to evaluate the velopharyngeal incompetence in clinical diagnoses using a nasometer. The aim of this study is to find the nasalance differences between Vietnamese cleft palate children and Korean cleft palate children by measuring the nasalance of five oral vowels. Methods: Ten Vietnamese cleft palate children after surgery, three Vietnamese children for the control group, and ten Korean cleft palate children after surgery with the same age participated in this experimentation. Instead of Korean control, the standard value of Korean version of the simplified nasometric assessment procedures (kSNAP) was used. Result: The results are as follows: (1) the highest nasalance score among the Vietnamese normal vowels is the low vowel /a/; however, that of Korean normal vowels is the high vowel /i/. (2) The average nasalance score of Korean cleft palate vowels is 18% higher than that of Vietnamese cleft palate vowels. There was a nasalance score of over 45% among the vowels /e/ and /i/ in Vietnamese cleft palate patients and /i/, /o/, and /u/ in Korean cleft palate patients. Conclusion: These different nasalance scores of the same vowels seem to cause an ethnic difference between Vietnamese and Korean cleft palate children.

Keywords

References

  1. Seaver EJ, Dalston RM (1991) A study of nasometric values for normal nasal resonance. J Speech Hear Res 34:715-721 https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.3404.715
  2. Litzaw LL, Dalston RM (1992) The effect of gender upon nasalance scores among normal adult speakers. J Commun Disord 25:55-64 https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9924(92)90014-N
  3. Kavanaugh JL, Fee ET, Kalinowski J, Doyle PC, Leeper HA (1994) Nasometric values for three dialectal groups within Atlantic Provinces of Canada. J Lang Pathol Audiol 18:7-13
  4. Prathanee B, Pongjunyaku A, Rengpatanakij K (2003) Nasalance scores for speech in normal Thai children. Scand J Plast Reconstr Surg Hand Surg 37:351-355 https://doi.org/10.1080/02844310310005892
  5. Warren DW, Jairfield WM, Dalston ET (1990) Effect of age on nasal cross-sectional area and respiratory mode in children. Laryngoscope 100:88-93
  6. Alan C (1999) Nasalance statistics for two Mexican populations. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 36:57-63 https://doi.org/10.1597/1545-1569(1999)036<0057:NSFTMP>2.3.CO;2
  7. Mayo R, Floyd LA, Warren DW, Dalston RM, Mayo CM (1996) Nasalance and nasal area values: cross-racial study. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 33:143-149 https://doi.org/10.1597/1545-1569(1996)033<0143:NANAVC>2.3.CO;2
  8. Warren DW, Dalston RM, Mayo R (1993) Aerodynamic of nasalization. In: Huffman MK, Krakow RA (eds) Phonetics and phonology: nasals, nasalization and the velum, vol 5. Academic Press, San Diego
  9. Tachimura T, Mori C, Hirata S, Wada T (2000) Nasalance score variation in normal adult Japanese speakers of Mid-West Japanese dialect. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 37:463-467 https://doi.org/10.1597/1545-1569(2000)037<0463:NSVINA>2.0.CO;2
  10. Fletcher SG, Adams LE, McCutcheon JJ (1989) Cleft palate speech assessment through oral-nasal acoustic measures. In: Bzoch KR (ed) Communicative disorders related to cleft lip and palate. Brown, Boston, pp 246-257
  11. Santos-Terron MJ, Gonzalez-Landa G, Sanchez-Ruiz I (1991) Nasometric patterns in the speech of normal child speakers of Castillian Spanish. Rev Esp Foniatr 4:71-75
  12. Leeper HA, Rochet AP, Mackay IRA (1992) Characteristics of nasalance in Canadian speakers of English and French. Paper presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, 12-16 October 1992
  13. Doom JV, Purcell A (1998) Nasalance levels in the speech of normal Australian children. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 35:287-292 https://doi.org/10.1597/1545-1569(1998)035<0287:NLITSO>2.3.CO;2

Cited by

  1. Normative Nasalance Values in Vietnamese With Southern Dialect: Vowel and Tone Effects vol.64, pp.5, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_jslhr-20-00723
  2. Automatic speech processing software - New sensitive tool for the assessment of nasality: A preliminary study vol.9, pp.1, 2022, https://doi.org/10.4103/jclpca.jclpca_22_21