Background/Purpose: Anecdotal clinical reports have stated that hypernasal speech sounds monotonous. However, the relationship between the perception of intonation (i.e., the fundamental frequency variation across an ...

Objective: To investigate the effect of perceptual interjudge agreement of hypernasality on velopharyngeal (VP) closure prediction. Methods: Two logistic regression models were developed and compared in order to verify the ...

The aim of this work was to study the contrast in the nasality of vowels and consonants in Brazilian Portuguese in normal speakers and speakers with hypernasality, and investigate the influence of syllabic tonicity and ...

Introdução: A fala é um importante parâmetro indicativo do sucesso ou insucesso do tratamento cirúrgico da fissura labiopalatina, sendo a hipernasalidade o principal sintoma da disfunção velofaríngea. Sua identificação é ...

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of the combination of a speech bulb with an intensive speech therapy program in hypernasal participants with cleft palate. Methods: Twenty hypernasal speakers with cleft palate (12 females ...

Objectives: This study investigates whether a change in speaking voice focus affects the oral-nasal balance. The investigation was undertaken with different phonetic materials in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, which ...

Objective: Reliable perceptual and instrumental assessment of oral-nasal balance disorders is a persistent problem in speech-language pathology. The goal of the study was to evaluate whether nasalance-based preclassification ...