Analyse van Fouten in Dovenspraak en Hun Relatie met Verstaanbaarheid (Analysis of Errors in the Speech of the Deaf and Their Relation to Intelligibility)

摘要

This report addresses the question of why the speech of the deaf is often so difficult to understand. This question is divided into two sections: (1) What are the typical errors which deaf speakers make; and (2) What is the relation of these errors to intelligibility. The authors differentiated the errors into segmental and suprasegmental errors. Segmental errors refer to the acoustic characteristics of the separate sounds, suprasegmental errors refer to the intonation contour (the basic tone curve), the temporal structure and the intensity curve.