• 대한통합의학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.191-206
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• 2018

Purpose : This study investigated the correlation between speech intelligibility and acoustic measurements of speech sounds produced by the children with speech sound disorders and children without any diagnosed speech sound disorder. Methods : A total of 60 children with and without speech sound disorders were the subjects of this study. Speech samples were obtained by having the subjects? speak meaningful words. Acoustic measurements were analyzed on a spectrogram using the Multi-speech 3700 program. Speech intelligibility was determined according to a listener's perceptual judgment. Results : Children with speech sound disorders had significantly lower speech intelligibility than those without speech sound disorders. The intensity of the vowel /u/, the duration of the vowel /${\omega}$/, and the second formant of the vowel /${\omega}$/ were significantly different between both groups. There was no difference in voice onset time between the groups. There was a correlation between acoustic measurements and speech intelligibility. Conclusion : The results of this study showed that the speech intelligibility of children with speech sound disorders was affected by intensity, word duration, and formant frequency. It is necessary to complement clinical setting results using acoustic measurements in addition to evaluation of speech intelligibility.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2015

This study investigated final consonant error characteristics at word-medial position in children with functional articulation disorder. Data was collected from 11 children with functional articulation and 11 normal children, ages 4 to 5. The speech samples were collected from a naming test. Seventy-five words with every possible bi-consonants matrix at the word-medial position were used. The results of this study were as follows : First, percentage of correct word-medial final consonants of functional articulation disorder was lower than normal children. Second, there were significant differences between two groups in omission, substitution and assimilation error. Children with functional articulation disorder showed a high frequency of omission and regressive assimilation error, especially alveolarization in regressive assimilation error most. However, normal children showed a high frequency of regressive assimilation error, especially bilabialization in regressive assimilation error most. Finally, the results of error analysis according to articulation manner, articulation place and phonation type of consonants of initial consonant at word-medial, both functional articulation disorder and normal children showed a high error rate in stop sound-stop sound condition. The error rate of final consonant at word-medial position was high when initial consonant at word-medial position was alveolar sound and alveopalatal sound. Futhermore, when initial sounds were fortis and aspirated sounds, more errors occurred than linis sound was initial sound. The results of this study provided practical error characteristics of final consonant at word-medial position in children with speech sound disorder.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2017

This study compares speech rate, articulatory rate, and pause between the children with mild and moderate Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) who performed Sentence Repetition Tasks and the Typically Developing children (TD) of the same chronological age. The results showed that three groups are categorized in terms of speaking rate and articulatory rate. There is no difference between the two groups with SSD children, namely between the mild and moderate groups. However, there is a significant difference in their rate of speech and the articulatory rate between the two groups, such that the two groups with SSD are significantly slower than the TD group. The results also showed that there are no significant difference in the length and frequency of pause between the moderate group and the mild group. However, there is a substantial difference between them and the TD group. This study, provided the basic data for evaluating the speech rate of the children and implies that there are limitations in speech rate among the children with SSD.

• 음성과학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.97-107
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• 2000

Motor aphasia is an affection frequently caused by insult of the left middle cerebral artery and usually accompanied by a large lesion involving the Broca's area and the adjacent motor and premotor areas. Therefore, a patient with motor aphasia commonly shows articulatory disturbances due to failure of the motor programing of speech sound. Objective assessment and treatment of phonologic programing is one of the important aspects of speech therapy in aphasic patients. We analyzed the speech disorders acompanied with motor aphasia in a 45-year-old man using a computerized sound spectrograph, Visi-$Pitch{\circledR}$, and Multi-Dimensional Voice $Program{\circledR}$. We concluded that a computerized speech analysis system is a useful tool to visualize and quantitatively analyse the severity and progression of dysarthria, and the effect of speech therapy.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.117-121
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• 2015

Background : Cepstral analysis which is obtained from Fourier transformation of spectrum has been known to be effective indicator to analyze the voice disorder. To evaluate the voice disorder, phonation of sustained vowel /a/ sound or continuous speech have been used but the former was limited to capture hoarseness properly. This study is aimed to compare the effectiveness in analysis of cepstrum between the sustained vowel /a/ sound and continuous speech. Methods : From March 2012 to December 2014, total 72 patients was enrolled in this study, including 24 unilateral vocal cord palsy, vocal nodule and vocal polyp patients, respectively. The entire patient evaluated their voice quality by VHI (Voice Handicap Index) before and after treatment. Phonation of sustained vowel /a/ sample and continuous speech using the first sentence of autumn paragraph was subjected by cepstral analysis and compare the pre-treatment group and post-treatment group. Results : The measured values of pre and post treatment in CPP-a (cepstral peak prominence in /a/ vowel sound) was 13.80, 13.91 in vocal cord palsy, 16.62, 17.99 in vocal cord nodule, 14.19, 18.50 in vocal cord polyp respectively. Values of CPP-s (cepstral peak prominence in text-based speech) in pre and post treatment was 11.11, 12.09 in vocal cord palsy, 12.11, 14.09 in vocal cord nodule, 12.63, 14.17 in vocal cord polyp. All 72 patients showed subjective improvement in VHI after treatment. CPP-a showed statistical improvement only in vocal polyp group, but CPP-s showed statistical improvement in all three groups (p<0.05). Conclusion : In analysis of cepstrum, text-based analysis is more representative in voice disorder than vowel sound speech. So when the acoustic analysis of voice by cepstrum, both phonation of sustained vowel /a/ sound and text based speech should be performed to obtain more accurate result.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2024

본 연구는 4세 아동에 대한 말소리발달 평가를 위해 세 문장 따라말하기 선별검사를 개발하고 또래와 비교할 수 있는 규준을 제공하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해 4세 전반과 후반 각각 24명씩 총 48명의 아동에게 선별검사를 실시하였다. 선별검사 결과는 기존의 말소리장애 평가 검사 결과와 .7의 상관을 보였다. 선별검사를 통해 구한 음운발달 지표와 오류패턴에서 4세 전반과 후반으로 나눈 두 집단에 차이가 있는지 비교하였다. 후반 아동의 발달지표가 높은 것으로 나왔지만 통계적으로 유의한 차이는 없었다. 모든 분석은 한국어말소리분석도구(Korean Speech Sound Analysis Tool, KSAT)를 사용하였으며, 자동분석 결과와 임상가의 수동분석 내용을 비교하였다. 자동분석과 수동분석의 오류패턴분석 일치도는 93.63%였다. 본 연구의 의의는 유도 문장수준에서 세 문장 따라말하기 선별검사의 4세 아동의 말소리 규준을 제시했다는 것과 KSAT의 임상과 연구 현장에서 적용 가능성을 검토하였다는 것이다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2021

본 연구의 목적은 말소리장애 아동이 산출하는 이중모음의 특성을 파악하여 평가 및 중재에 활용할 수 있는 기초 자료를 마련하는 것이다. 현재까지 말소리장애 아동의 이중모음 산출 특성에 관한 음향학적 연구는 미비하였다. 이에 말소리장애 아동과 일반 아동을 대상으로 집단 간 이중모음 산출 특성의 차이를 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 각 10명의 만 4-5세 말소리장애와 일반 아동을 대상으로, 무의미 2음절 '이중모음+다'를 모방하도록 하였다. 산출된 이중모음의 활음 구간 내 제1, 2 포먼트 기울기, 포먼트 변화량, 활음 지속시간을 Praat(version 6.1.16)을 이용해 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 두 집단 간 /유/의 F1 기울기에 집단 간 유의한 차이가 있었다. 또한, 말소리장애 아동이 일반 아동에 비해 전반적으로 작은 포먼트 변화량과 더 짧은 활음 지속시간을 보였다. 유의한 포먼트 변화량의 집단 간 차이는 /유, 예/의 F1과 /야, 예/의 F2에서 나타났으며, 유의한 활음 지속시간의 차이는 /유, 예/에서 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 말소리장애 아동이 이중모음을 조음하는 범위가 일반 아동보다 상대적으로 작아 그만큼 조음하는데 걸리는 시간이 줄었음을 보여준다. 이러한 점은 말소리장애 아동의 이중모음에 관한 평가와 중재를 할 때 말소리장애 아동의 조음 범위를 고려해야 하며, 이에 음향학적 도구를 활용하는 것이 필요함을 뒷받침한다.

• 재활치료과학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.67-78
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• 2019

목적 : 본 연구에서는 말소리장애 아동과 일반 아동을 대상으로 어휘인출 시 단순 손동작(hand tapping)을 반복하게 하는 것이 조음정확도와 유창성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지에 대해 알아보았다. 손동작을 반복하면서 어휘를 산출하는 것은 주의를 분산시키는 이중과제에 해당하기 때문에, 주의력 저하가 보고된 말소리장애 아동의 경우 일반 아동과 다른 행동 양상을 보이는지를 파악하고자 하였다. 연구방법 : 4, 5, 6세의 말소리장애 아동 15명과 일반 아동 15명이 본 연구에 참여하였다. 조음복잡성이 높은 어휘와 낮은 어휘를 각각 15개씩, 총 30개를 선정하여, 이에 대한 대면이름대기 과제를 실시하였다. 첫 번째 실험조건에서는 단순 손동작을 반복하지 않고, 두 번째 실험조건에서는 손바닥으로 책상을 두드리면서 그림 이름을 말하도록 하였다. 대상자의 반응에 대해 자음정확도, 비유창성 정도, 정확성 변화와 유창성 변화의 상관관계를 측정하여, 두 실험조건에 따른 두 집단 간 수행력을 비교하였다. 결과 : 첫째, 말소리장애 집단과 일반 집단 모두 손동작 반복 과제와 손동작 비반복 과제 간 자음정확도에는 유의한 차이가 없었다. 둘째, 일반 집단은 손동작 반복 과제에서 비유창성이 유의하게 증가하였으나, 말소리장애 집단은 차이가 없었다. 셋째 손동작 반복에 따른 자음정확도 변화와 비유창성 변화는 일반집단의 경우 유의한 양의 상관관계가 있었으나 말소리장애 집단은 아무런 상관을 보이지 않았다. 결론 : 본 연구에서 주의력 분산을 위해 사용한 단순 손동작 반복은 결과적으로 집단에 따라 대상자의 목표행동에 방해가 될 수도, 혹은 그 반대로 도움이 될 수도 있었다. 어휘인출에 대한 손동작 반복의 영향이 두 집단 간 다른 양상으로 나타난 만큼 이에 대한 심층적 논의가 필요할 것이다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2013

Coda in the word-medial position plays an important role in acquisition of our speech. Accuracy of the coda in the word-medial position is important as a diagnostic indicator since it has a close relationship with degrees of disorder. Coda in the word-medial position only appears in condition of connecting two vowels and the sequence causes diverse phonological processes to happen. The coda in the word-medial position differs in production difficulty by the initial sound in the sequence. Accordingly, this study aims to examine the tendency of producing a coda in the word-medial position with consideration of an optional phonological process in spontaneous speech of three and four year old children. Data was collected from 24 children (four groups by age) without speech and language delay. The results of the study are as follows: 1) Sonorant coda in the word-medial position showed a high production frequency in manner of articulation, and alveolar in place of articulation. When the coda in the word-medial position is connected to an initial sound in the same place of articulation, it revealed a high frequency of production. 2) The coda in word-medial position followed by an initial alveolar stop revealed a high error rate. Error patterns showed regressive assimilation predominantly. 3) The order of difficulty that Children had producing codas in the word-medial position was $/k^{\neg}/$, $/p^{\neg}/$, /m/, /n/, /ŋ/ and /l/. Those results suggest that in targeting coda in the word-medial position for evaluation, we should consider optional phonological process as well as the following initial sound. Further studies would be necessary which codas in the word-medial position will be used for therapeutic purpose.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.169-183
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to find an effect of Metaphon Intervention on the improvement of speech intelligibility of preschool children with articulation-phonological disorders. Subjects were 4 preschool children with articulation-phonological disorders. A multiple baseline design across subjects was used to examine the effect of the program. The program consisted of 2 steps. The first step was composed of concept level, sound level, phoneme level, and word level. The second step was on sentence level. Results were as follows: First, metaphon ability of all subjects was improved after the Metaphon Intervention. Second, speech intelligibility of all subjects was improved after Metaphon Intervention. From the results above, Metaphon Intervention can be effective to improve not only phonological awareness and metaphon but also overall speech intelligibility of preschool children with articulation-phonological disorders.