Abstract
In comparing the speaking fundamental frequency (SFF) for individual sentences to SFF derived from the entire “rainbow passage” (Fairbanks, 1960), Horii (1975) concluded that a sufficient correlation (r = 0.985) existed between sentence two's and the passage's SFF to justify use of only sentence two for SFF analysis. He cautioned, however, that use of single sentences to represent standard deviation (SD) of SFF should be avoided as the resultant correlations with the entire passage were too low. The purpose of the present investigation was to extend Horii's analysis of normally produced voice to voice of subjects with vocal pathologies (14 adult women with mass related lesions to the vocal folds). SFF analysis of these subjects' readings of the “rainbow passage” was completed using a microcomputer‐driven speech editor. The results were used to correlate single sentence samples and multiple sentence samples with the SFF and SD derived for the entire passage. The proposed poster will display the correlation matrices. The most salient findings were that for SFF two sentences (4 and 5) comprised the smallest sample with a correlation <0.985 and for SD the entire passage minus the second sentence was the smallest sample to produce such a high correlation.
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