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Spectral Characteristics of Cardinal Vowels as Indicators of the Auditory Speech Feedback Control in Patients with Moderate and Moderately Severe Chronic Postlingual Sensorineural Hearing Loss

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Chronic sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is characterized by an increase in hearing thresholds at basic speech frequencies, which implies deterioration of auditory speech feedback control and, as a result, changes of speech characteristics. A hypothesis was tested that such deterioration can manifest itself in an increase of F0, F1, F2 formants of speech vowel in patients with moderate and moderately severe postlingual SNHL. Recordings of elicited speech were performed for young and middle age women (36–59 years): 7 women speakers with moderate SNHL who did not use hearing aids; 5 women speakers with moderately severe SNHL who were hearing aids users but were not using them during the recordings; a control group of 12 normally hearing women speakers. An assessment of F0, F1 and F2 of stressed vowels [a], [i], [u] and calculations of vowels’ centralization indices—vowel space area, vowel formant centralization ratio and the second formant ratio (F2i/F2u), were performed. All the studied spectral indices in groups of patients with postlingual SNHL were similar to those in the control group, no statistically reliable differences were revealed.

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The authors are grateful to L.G. Zaitseva for her advice in processing the speech material.

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The work was supported by funds from the state budget under the state assignment (subject no. 075-00967-23-00).

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  1. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    K. S. Shtin, A. M. Lunichkin, A. P. Gvozdeva & I. G. Andreeva

  2. North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Idea of work and planning the experiment (L.E.G., I.G.A., K.S.Sh.), methodology preparation (I.G.A., A.P.G.), data collection (K.S.Sh., A.M.L.), data processing (K.S.Sh., A.M.L.), writing and editing the manuscript (K.S.Sh., I.G.A., A.M.L., A.P.G., L.E.G.).

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All procedures performed in the present study involving humans complied with the requirements of the Ethical Committee of the Municipal Geriatric Medical and Social Center, Saint Petersburg (Protocol no. 9 of October 14, 2021), the Ethical Committee of the Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, and the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 (Protocol no. 3-02 of February 26, 2021), and the Declaration of Helsinki, 1964, as subsequently amended (Protocol no. 3-02, February 26, 2021). Before starting the experiment, each subject signed an informed consent.

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2023, published in Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I.M. Sechenova, 2023, Vol. 109, No. 4, pp. 489–501https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869813923040106.

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Shtin, K.S., Lunichkin, A.M., Gvozdeva, A.P. et al. Spectral Characteristics of Cardinal Vowels as Indicators of the Auditory Speech Feedback Control in Patients with Moderate and Moderately Severe Chronic Postlingual Sensorineural Hearing Loss. J Evol Biochem Phys 59, 596–606 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093023020254

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