title: Nasalance and nasal area values: cross-racial study.
abstract: Nasometry and nasal cross-sectional area data were obtained from 80 normal male and female speakers (40 African-Americans and 40 white Americans) all of whom were over the age of 18 and spoke the Mid-Atlantic dialect of American English. The nasalance scores for readings of the Zoo Passage did not differ significantly between the groups. However, nasalance scores for readings of the Nasal Sentences were found to be significantly higher among the white speakers. The pressure-flow method was used to obtain nasal cross-sectional area values. There were no racial differences in nasal cross-sectional area. The Nasal Sentences scores were not highly correlated with nasal cross-sectional area. The clinical significance of these findings is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Speech and Language Services, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599-7450, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mayo
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Floyd
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Warren
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Dalston
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Mayo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000403:Airway Resistance; D044383:Black People; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009666:Nose / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D014481:United States; D014833:Voice Quality; D044465:White People; D001741:Black or African American