ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2023
Voice Onset Time in Children With and Without Vocal Fold Nodules.
Article in Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Alignment Development Is Not a Unitary Phenomenon: A Comparison of Speech Rate and Lexical Alignment in Children.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
- The Pediatric Vocal Mechanism: Structure and Function.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2025Review
- Voiced-Voiceless Consonant Distinction in Children With Vocal Fold Nodules: A Preliminary Study.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2025Article
- Consonant aspiration in Mandarin-speaking children: a developmental perspective from perception and production.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeVoice onset time (VOT) of voiceless consonants provides information on the coordination of the vocal and articulatory systems. This study examined whether vocal-articulatory coordination is affected by the presence of vocal fold nodules (VFNs) in children.
methodThe voices of children with VFNs (6-12 years) and age- and gender-matched vocally healthy controls were examined. VOT was calculated as the time between the voiceless stop consonant burst and the vocal onset of the vowel. Measures of the average VOT and VOT variability, defined as the coefficient of variation, were calculated. The acoustic measure of dysphonia, cepstral peak prominence (CPP), was also calculated. CPP provides information about the overall periodicity of the signal, with more dysphonic voices having lower CPP values.
resultsThere were no significant differences in either average VOT or VOT variability between the VFN and control groups. VOT variability and average VOT were both significantly predicted by the interaction between Group and CPP. There was a significant negative correlation between CPP and VOT variability in the VFN group, but no significant relationship was found in the control group.
conclusionsUnlike previous studies with adults, there were no group differences in average VOT or VOT variability in this study. However, children with VFNs who were more dysphonic had increased VOT variability, suggestive of a relationship between dysphonia severity and control of vocal onset during speech production.
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