Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...

Medical discourse is replete with the language of war and such phrases as ”the war on cancer,” ”magic bullets,” “silver bullets,” “the therapeutic armamentarium,” “agents of disease,” “the body’s defences,” and “doctor’s orders” are deeply engrained in our medical rhetoric. The mindset engendered by this discourse of war renders the patient as a battlefield upon which the doctor-combatant defea...

At a time when the British political scene and media environment have been saturated with references to “the people” people’s voice”, films may seem ideal means question what it “represent” something or someone, reveal how term of “people”, while being overused misused, offers floating signifier that conjures up all types projections. This article focuses on three whose reception has skewed by ...

There are many situations in which it is desirable to be able to distinguish spontaneous speech and speech which is non-spontaneous. Examples of situations in which this problem may arise include forensic evidence situations, sorting voice-mail responses from voice-mail menus, and automatic segmentation of spontaneous responses from prepared questions. The later situation can occur if it is des...

Parkinson's disease (PD) has several negative effects on speech production and communication. However, few studies have looked at how speech patterns in PD contribute to linguistic and social impressions formed about PD patients from the perspective of listeners. In this study, discourse recordings elicited from nondemented PD speakers (n = 18) and healthy controls (n = 17) were presented to 30...

Speech synthesis has improved in both expressiveness and voice quality in recent years. However, obtaining full expressiveness when dealing with large multi-sentential synthesized discourse is still a challenge, since speech synthesizers do not take into account the prosodic differences that have been observed in discourse units such as paragraphs. The current study validates and extends previo...

The history of reflection on language is characterized by a singular ambiguity. For centuries, it has been carried as if the existence and cognitive-narrative capacities which derive from were independently considered function that, other hand, founds characterizes it, namely listening. We believe that reason for this strangeness lies in fact there no possible discourse listening does not lead ...

Abstract This article explores the ways in which socially and politically engaged poetry challenged Franco regime mid-twentieth-century Spain. A close reading of work Blas de Otero reveals how this poet crafts a discordant voice by alluding to, mimicking, subverting very myths rhetoric Franco’s regime. Working against strictures state censorship, usurps linguistic idiosyncrasies thematic tropes...

Published data on the frequency of the voice fundamental (F0) in speech show its range of variation, often expressed in terms of two standard deviations (SD) of the F0-distribution, to be approximately the same for men and women if expressed in semitones, but the observed SD varies substantially between different investigations. Most of the differences can be attributed to the following factors...