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- Eklund, Robert, 1962-, et al.
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An acoustic analysis of Swedish cattle calls,‘kulning’, performed outdoors at three distances
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings from Fonetik 2019. - 9789177979845 - 9789177979852
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kulning is a Swedish cattle call singing style with an almost mythical status inSwedish folklore. In previous studiestwo of the authors (RE, AM) studied kulning produced by a kulning singer (FP) in both indoor and outdoor settings. In this paper we report kulning as produced by a second singer (the third author, KD), recorded outdoors in a forest setting, with simultaneous recordings at 1, 11 and 22 meters. The results of amplitude, FFT and LPC analyses reported, and compared to theearlier studies reported in Eklund, McAllister and Pehrson (2013) and McAllister and Eklund (2015).
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- Rayner, Manny, et al.
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A web-deployed Swedish spoken CALL systembased on a large shared English/Swedish feature grammar
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the SLTC 2012 workshop on NLP for CALL. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. ; , s. 37-46
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We describe a Swedish version of CALL-SLT,a web-deployed CALL system that allows beginner/intermediate students to practise generativespoken language skills. Speech recognitionis grammar-based, with language modelsderived, using the Regulus platform, fromsubstantial domain-independent feature grammars.The paper focusses on the Swedishgrammar resources, which were developedby generalising the existing English featuregrammar into a shared grammar for Englishand Swedish. It turns out that this can be donevery economically: all but a handful of rulesand features are shared, and English grammaressentially ends up being treated as a reducedform of Swedish. We conclude by presentinga simple evaluation which compares theSwedish and French versions of CALL-SLT.
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- Bakke, Merete, et al.
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Development and evaluation of a comprehensive screening for orofacial dysfunction.
- 2007
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Ingår i: Swedish dental journal. - 0347-9994. ; 31:2, s. 75-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim was to develop a comprehensive screening instrument for evaluation of orofacial dysfunction that was easy to perform for different health professionals without special equipment. The Nordic Orofacial Test--Screening (NOT-S), consisting of a structured interview and clinical examination,was developed with a picture manual illustrating the different tasks in the examination. It was first tested in a Swedish version, and later translated to other Nordic languages, and to English. The interview reflected six domains, (I) Sensory function, (II) Breathing, (III) Habits, (IV) Chewing and swallowing, (V) Drooling, and (VI) Dryness of the mouth, and the examination included six domains representing (1) The face at rest, and tasks regarding (2) Nose breathing, (3) Facial expression, (4) Masticatory muscle and jaw function, (5) Oral motor function, and (6) Speech. One or more "yes" for impairment in a domain resulted in one point (maximum NOT-S score 12 points). The mean NOT-S score (+/- SD) in 120 patients (3-86 yr), referred to five centers for specialized dental care or speech and language pathology in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, was 4.1 +/- 2.6, and 0.4 +/- 0.6 in 60 control subjects (3-78 yr). The screening was easy to administer and the time spent 5-13 min. The scores from the clinic-referred sample differed significantly from the controls, and the sensitivity of the screening was 0.96 and specificity 0.63. Repeated evaluations of videotapes of 200 patients by 3 examiners, speech-language pathologists and dentists, with at least two-week intervals, showed inter- and intraexaminer agreement on the points given in the domains at respectively 83% and 92-95% which increased after recalibration to 85% and 95-99%. Kappa values for interexaminer agreement on the NOT-S scores were 0.42-0.44 (i.e. fair), and the method error was 5.3%. To conclude, NOT-S gave a reliable and valid screening for orofacial dysfunction.
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- Bergendal, Birgitta, et al.
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Orofacial function and monitoring of oral care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- 2017
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Ingår i: Acta Odontologica Scandinavica. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0001-6357 .- 1502-3850. ; 75:3, s. 179-185
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: The aim was to assess orofacial function and monitor oral care in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to maintain oral comfort and oral health.MATERIALS AND METHODS: A case series of 14 patients newly diagnosed with ALS accepted to participate in a quality improvement project. After initial examinations, baseline oral conditions were obtained and the patients were seen every 3 months. Nordic Orofacial Test-Screening (NOT-S) was used for evaluation of orofacial function.RESULTS: Patients were grouped according to initial symptoms in a bulbar group and a spinal group with eight and six patients, respectively. The mean age at diagnosis was 62.8 years. All were dentate with a mean of 26.7 natural teeth. Most patients had very good oral and dental conditions. As expected, orofacial functions were differently affected in the two groups; at initial NOT-S registration, the mean total score was 5.6 (range 3-8 domains) in the bulbar group and 0.7 (0-2 domains) in the spinal group. At final registration, the corresponding figures were 6.1 and 3.2. Oral and dental aids were introduced according to need.CONCLUSIONS: In the bulbar group, several orofacial functions became impaired at an early stage of disease development, and at final registrations many vital orofacial functions were severely compromised. The spinal group was less severely affected orally. However, all individuals irrespective of type of initial symptoms needed assistance in performing oral hygiene measures in the latter part of the disease period. Good oral health and oral comfort could be maintained in all participants and no other dental treatment was needed.
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- Bergendal, Birgitta, et al.
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Profiles of orofacial dysfunction in different diagnostic groups using the Nordic Orofacial Test (NOT-S)-A review
- 2014
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Ingår i: Acta Odontologica Scandinavica. - : Informa Healthcare. - 0001-6357 .- 1502-3850. ; 72:8, s. 578-584
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective. The Nordic Orofacial Test-Screening (NOT-S) was developed as a comprehensive method to assess orofacial function. Results from the screening protocol have been presented in 11 international publications to date. This study reviewed these publications in order to compile NOT-S screening data and create profiles of orofacial dysfunction that characterize various age groups and disorders. Materials and methods. NOT-S results of nine reports meeting the inclusion criteria were reviewed. Seven of these studies not only provided data on the mean and range of total NOT-S scores, but also on the most common domains of orofacial dysfunction (highest rate of individuals with dysfunction scores), allowing the construction of orofacial dysfunction profiles based on the prevalence of dysfunction in each domain of NOT-S. Results. The compiled data comprised 669 individuals, which included healthy control subjects (n = 333) and various patient groups (n = 336). All studies reported differences between individuals with diagnosed disorders and healthy control subjects. The NOT-S data could measure treatment effects and provided dysfunction profiles characterizing the patterns of orofacial dysfunction in various diagnoses. Conclusions. This review corroborates previous results that the NOT-S differentiates well between patients and healthy controls and can also show changes in individuals after treatment. NOT-S could be used as a standard instrument to assess orofacial dysfunction, evaluate the outcomes of oral habilitation and rehabilitation and improve comparability in clinical practice and research.
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- Contardo, Ivonne, et al.
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Real-time registration of listener reactions to unintelligibility in misarticulated child speech
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings from FONETIK 2014. - Stockholm. ; , s. 127-132
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study explores the relation between misarticulations and their impact on intelligibility. 30 listeners (17 clinicians and 13 untrained listeners) were given the task of clicking a button whenever they perceived something unintelligible during playback of misarticulated child speech samples. No differences were found between the clinicians and the untrained listeners regarding clicking frequency. The distribution of listener clicks correlated strongly with the clinical evaluations of the same samples. The distribution of clicks was also related to manually annotated speech errors, allowing examination of links between events in the speech signal and reactions evoked in listeners. Hereby, we demonstrate a viable approach to ranking speech error types with regards to their impact on intelligibility in conversational speech.
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- Eklund, Robert, 1962-, et al.
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An acoustic analysis of ‘kulning’ (cattle calls) recorded in an outdoor setting on location in Dalarna (Sweden)
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. - Glasgow, Scotland, UK : International Phonetic Association. - 9780852619414
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish cattle call singing style ‘kulning’ issurprisingly understudied, despite its almostmythical status in Swedish folklore. While somephysiological-productive aspects of kulning havebeen treated in previous work, acoustic propertiesare still much lacking description. This paper addsto and extends the results presented in a previousstudy [7], where kulning and head voice (“falsetto”)was acoustically analysed in two indoor settings:a normal room and an anechoic chamber. In thepresent study, the same singer, singing the samekulning in the same two modes (kulning and headvoice), was recorded in an outdoor setting (close tothe singer’s home), thus allowing for a comparisonbetween “clinical” and more ecologically valid data.
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- Eklund, Robert, 1962-, et al.
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An acoustic comparison of voice characteristics in ‘kulning’, head and modal registers.
- 2013
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Ingår i: Robert Eklund (ed.), <em>Proceedings of Fonetik 2013, the XXVIth Swedish Phonetics Conference, Studies in Language and Culture, no. 21</em>, ISBN 978-91-7519-582-7, eISBN 978-91-7519-579-7, ISSN 1403-2570, pp. 21–24.. - 9789175195827 - 9789175195797 ; , s. 21-24
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Swedish folk singing style ‘kulning’ issurprisingly understudied, despite its almostmythical status in Swedish folklore. While somephysiological–productive aspects of kulninghave been treated in previous work, acousticproperties are still much lacking description.This paper compares kulning, head (‘falsetto’)and modal voice from an acoustic perspective.
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