• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.245-250
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• 2014

이 연구의 목적은 음절 간 쉼 간격이 인공와우 이식(cochlear implantation; CI) 아동의 어음이해도(speech discrimination score; SDS)에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 하는데 있다. 이 연구에는 CI 아동 12명이 참여하였다. 어음이해도 평가는 자체 제작한 무의미 3음절을 사용하였고, 음절 간 쉼 간격은 250, 500, 1,000ms로 조절하였다. 어음 강도는 대상자들이 가장 편하기 느끼는 강도(most comfortable loudness; MCL)로 하였다. 평가는 4지 선다형 보기에서 대상자들이 선택할 수 있는 방법(closed-set)으로 실시하였다. 어음이해도는 250, 500, 1,000 ms 순서로 62.08, 63.75, 69.58 %로 통계적으로 유의하지 않지만, 개선되는 경향이 나타났다(p = .4635). 이를 통해 음절 간 쉼 간격은 인공와우 이식 아동의 어음이해도에 영향을 미친다는 것을 알 수 있다.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.139-144
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• 2014

어음 이해는 발화속도에 영향을 받는다. 발화속도는 쉼 간격으로 조절할 수 있는데, 쉼 간격은 정보 처리과정에서 여유 시간을 가질 수 있어서 정보의 과부하를 피할 수 있다. 이 연구는 쉼 간격이 노화에 따른 청력손실과 청각재활, 청각처리 과정에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위한 기초 연구로서 그 정상치를 알아보고자 한다. 연구 대상은 청각학 및 언어병리학적 문제가 없는 일반 초등학생 남자 7명, 여자 8명으로 하였다. 검사 도구는 3음절 20개를 1 set으로, 모두 4 set를 제작하였다. 이들 모든 낱말은 각각 보통(250 ms), 느린(500 ms), 아주 느린(1000 ms) 속도로 쉼 간격을 조절하였다. 선택용 보기는 올바르게 표기한 3음절 낱말 하나와 음소 하나씩을 오류 표기한 세 개의 낱말을 포함한 4개의 낱말로 하였다. 대상자에게는 3음절 낱말을 들려 준 후, 하나를 선택하게 하였다. 연구 결과 쉼 간격에 따른 평균 어음이해도는 250, 500, 1,000 ms의 순서로 $73{\pm}19.4%$, $84{\pm}12.2%$, $88{\pm}8.8%$로 각각 나타났다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제33_34호
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• pp.91-98
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• 1997

Auditory discrimination which represents a very basic and important perceptual skill in children is a necessary condition for effective learning. It is necessary, therefore, to devise a standardized test tool for a reliable assessment of the auditory discrimination ability of children. The Korean Auditory Discrimination Test(KADT) is a tentative test tool that the authors have devised to meet such demand, i.e., to test the auditory discrimination ability of Korean children, both normal and hearing- and speech-impaired, between the ages of 4 and 8. The KADT consists of 40 pairs of words arranged in a systematic manner, of which thirty are 'minimal pairs' of words and the rest homophonous synonyms. The 30 minimal pairs are composed in such a way that major phonological contrasts involving consonants and vowels at initial, medial and final positions are duly represented. The test score will be determined by the number of right responses made by the children. Further attempts will be made to refine and improve KADT in future.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.287-307
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• 1991

This study aimed at examining speech defects of openbite patients, which were analized in terms of formant frequency for vowels and word pronunciation length for consonants. In addition, the upper and lower lip (perioral m.) activity was tested by the EMG. The tongue force was measured by the strain gauge, and the speech discrimination test was carried out. One experimental group and one control group were used for this study and they were respectively composed of six female openbite patients and six normal-occlusion females. Eight monophthongs, two fricatives and two affricatives were chosen for speech analysis. Speeches of the above-mentioned groups were recorded and then analized by the ILS/PC-1 software. Four hundred most frequently used monosyllables were also chosen for discrimination score. Openbite patients showed the following characteristics: 1. Abnormality in case of /a/, $/\varepsilon/$, /e/, /i/ $F_2$ and /e/, /a/ $F_1$. 2. Significantly elongated length in their pronunciation of /h/ and $/C^h/$ and somewhat elongated length also in their pronunciation of /s/ and /c/. 3. Significant upper lip activity according to the EMG test during pronunciation of the bilabial consonants. 4. Relatively weak tongue force according to the strain gauge measurement. 5. According to the speech discrimination test, high rate of misarticulation in case of (a) initial /p/ /s'/ and /ts'/, (b) /a/,$/\varepsilon/$,/e/,/je/,/o/, $/\phi/$,/jo/,/u/,/we/, and /i/ (c) final (equation omitted).

• 음성과학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.79-94
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to compare phonological awareness ability of students with Down Syndrome(DS) and typically developing children(TD). TD and DS were equal the reading abilities(reading recognition). The subject were 10 DS and 10 TD, and were examined by test of phonological awareness. The test of phonological awareness was composed according to phonological units(word, syllable, phoneme) and task types(deletion, discrimination, blending). The results obtained in this study were as follows: The total score of phonological awareness ability of DS were significantly lower than TD. And the score of phonological awareness ability according to phonological units and task types were significantly lower than TD. But both DS and TD performed better on phonological deletion and blending task than discrimination. TD and DS represented different correlation between task types and phonological units. This means that TD performed better on all types of tasks and phonological units than DS.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.133-144
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• 2009

Pharyngeal flap surgery changes the space and shape of the oral cavity and vocal tract, and these changing conditions bring resonance change. The purpose of this study was to determine the most reliable and valuable parameters for evaluating hypernasality to distinguish two patients before and after pharyngeal flap surgery. Each patient was asked to clearly speak the vowels /a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/ for voice recording. There were nine parameters: Formant (F1, F2, F3), Bandwidth (BW1, BW2, BW3), LPC energy slope ($\Delta$ |A2-A1/F2-F1|), and Band Energy (0-500 Hz, 500-1000 Hz) by each vowel. From the results of discrimination analyses on acoustic parameters, the vowels /a/, /e/ appeared to be insignificant but vowels /i/, /u/, /o/ appeared to be efficient in the separation. A 95%, 100%, and 100% recognition score could be reached when vowels /i/, /u/, and /o/ were analyzed. The results showed that F2, BW3, and LPC slope are more important parameters than the others. Finally, there is a relation between perceptual evaluation score and LPC energy slope of acoustic parameters by least square slope.

• 대한기관식도과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기관식도과학회 1977년도 제11차 학술대회연제 순서 및 초록
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• pp.6.1-6
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• 1977

지금까지의 검사방법에는 순음청력검사, 어음청력검사, 자기청력검사, impedance audiometry등 여러가지 객관적청력검사방법이 있으며, 이들 가운데서 순음청력검사 및 어음청력검사가 기본검사로써 많이 이용되고 있음은 우리들이 주지하고 있는 터이지만 우리나라에 있어서의 어음청력검사에 관한 연구는 과거 20년간의 꾸준한 연구가 있었음에도 불구하고 아직까지 통일원 어음청력검사표가 없으므로써 각각의 어음청취역치와 명료도치 상호간의 정확한 비교가 되지 못하고 있을 뿐 아니라 이들의 검사방법 및 검사재료에 따른 계통적인 연구도 적었기 때문에 어때한 청사 방법과 어느 검사재료가 한국인의 어음청력검사에서 보다 적합한지를 모르고 있는 실정에 있다. 차제에 저자들은 한국에서의 통일된 어음청력검사표의 기준 및 검사법의 통일을 전제로해서 다음과 같이, 한국에서 통용되고 있으며, 대한청각학회에 제출되어 있는 5가지의 어음표를 사용하여 정상인에서 얻은 검사결과를 비교분석하여 다음과 같은 지견을 얻었다. A. 검사재료 및 방법 a. 어음검사표 1. 백준기어음표 (이하 "백 "이라고 약함) 2. 소진명어음표 (이하 "소"라고 약함) 3. 신규식어음표 (이하 "신"이라고 약함) 4. 이종담어음표 (이하 "이" 라고 약함) 5. 함태영어음표 (이하 "함"이라고 약함) b. 검사방법 1. 상행법 2. 하행법 c. 검사대상 1. 여자육성어음 2. 남자녹음어음 3. 여자녹음어음 B. 결 론 1. 상행법이 전검사에 있어서 하행법보다 검사치가 낮아 좋은 결과를 보였다. 2. 어음청취역치및 명료도치는 여자육성이 남자녹음 음에서 보다 낮았으나 여자녹음음에서 보다는 높았다. 3. 어음청취역치는 "함", "이", "소", "신", "백"순으로 수치가 낮았다. 4. 명료도치는 "신", "이", "소", "함", "백"의 순이였다. 5. 이상의 지견을 고찰할 때 우리나라에 있어서도 하루 속히 어음청력검사에 따른 기준치의 설정과 표준 어음청력검사표의 완성등 적절한 조치가 이루어져야할 것으로 촉구되었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.529-534
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• 2009

One of the characteristics of the hearing impaired is that their frequency selectivity is poorer than that of the normal hearing. To compensate this, formant enhancement algorithms and spectral contrast enhancement algorithms have been developed. However in some cases, these algorithms fail to improve the frequency selectivity of the hearing impaired. One of the reasons is the acoustic masking among enhanced formants. In this study, we tried to enhance the formants based on the individual masking characteristic of each subject. The masking characteristic used in this study was minimum level difference (MLD) between the first formant to the second formant while acoustic masking was occurred. If the level difference between the two formants in each frame is larger than the MLD, the gain of the first formant was decreased to reduce the acoustic masking that occurred among formants. As a result of the speech discrimination test, using formant enhanced speeches, speech discrimination score (SDS) of the speeches having differently enhanced formants was significantly superior to SDS of the speeches having equally enhanced formants. It means that suppression of the acoustic masking among formants improve frequency selectivity of the hearing impaired.

• 음성과학
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.111-125
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• 2007

It is important to examine patients' subjective evaluation as well as objective measures and clinician's rating to assess voice disorders. This study aimed to evaluate validity and reliability of Korean-version of Voice Handicap Index (KVHI) and Voice-Related Quality of Life (KVQOL) with 113 adults with voice disorders and 111 normal adults. Content validity was verified by three experienced speech-language pathologists. Concurrent validity was revealed by examining the correlation among KVHI, KVQOL, and Voice Rating Scale as well as item discrimination coefficients. Total scores of KVHI and KVQOL of adults with voice disorders were significantly different from those of normal adults. Test-retest reliability and internal consistencies were significantly high in both KVHI and KVQOL. Correlations among scores of each subscale and total score were also significantly high in each tool. The study revealed that KVHI and KVQOL are suitable tools to be used in clinics and research areas in Korea, which can subjectively evaluate the effects of voice disorders on daily life as well as on quality of life.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.385-394
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• 2010

Automatic gain control(AGC) is used in hearing aids to compensate for the hearing level as to reduced dynamic range. AGC is consisted of the main 4 factors which are compression threshold, compression ratio, attack time, and release time. This study especially focus on each individual need for optimum release time parameters that can be changed within 7 certain range such as 12, 64, 128, 512, 2094, and 4096ms. To estimate the effect of various release time in AGC, twelve normal hearing and twelve hearing impaired listeners are participated. The stimuli are used by one syllable and sentence which have the same acoustic energy respectively. Then, each of score of the word recognition score is checked in quiet and noise conditions. As a result, it is verified that most people have the different best recognition score on specific release time. Also, if hearing aids is set by the optimum release time in each person, it is helpful in speech recognition and discrimination.