Abstract
An analysis was performed on the acoustic characteristics of the vowels /i, æ, u/ in several CV contexts in the speech of deaf and normal hearing children. The CV syllables were embedded in sentences, and only those syllables judged by a group of phoneticians to have been correctly produced were analyzed for the deaf children. For all three vowels, there was greater variability among the deaf subjects than among the normal hearing subjects in the frequency location of the first two formants. The average differences in the F1 − F2 plots between the two groups of speakers varied systematically depending upon the vowel produced and the phonetic context in which it occurred. Differences between the two groups of speakers was observed for the F1/F2 ratio as well as for the absolute frequency location of the formants. These data indicate that vowels in deaf children's speech can be correctly identified even though the absolute and relative formant values differ from that of normal hearing speakers. [Research supported by PHS Grant ♯09252 from NINCDS.]
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