Rt. Anderson, NASOMETRIC VALUES FOR NORMAL SPANISH-SPEAKING FEMALES - A PRELIMINARY-REPORT, The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal, 33(4), 1996, pp. 333-336
Most normative data available for assessing resonance through instrume
ntation have been collected with English-speaking individuals, The pre
sent study aimed at providing initial data on Spanish for use with the
nasometer, Mean nasalance scores were obtained from 40 normal Puerto
Rican Spanish-speaking females while they read three types of stimuli:
(1) sentences containing nasal consonants, (2) a reading passage with
both oral and nasal consonants, and (3) a reading passage with oral c
onsonants, Results indicated significant differences in mean nasalance
scores across the nasal sentences, as well as the two paragraph stimu
li, In addition, a high degree of intersubject variability in the prod
uction of the target stimuli was evidenced, Comparisons with previous
English normative data with similar reading stimuli are made and possi
ble avenues for further research on the use of the nasometer with Span
ish-speaking populations are discussed.