Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
J Voice. 2012 Sep;26(5):664.e1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2011.08.008. Epub 2012 Jan 30.
The formant frequencies of Malaysian Malay children have not been well studied. This article investigates the first four formant frequencies of sustained vowels in 360 Malay children aged between 7 and 12 years using acoustical analysis. Generally, Malay female children had higher formant frequencies than those of their male counterparts. However, no significant differences in all four formant frequencies were observed between the Malay male and female children in most of the vowels and age groups. Significant differences in all formant frequencies were found across the Malay vowels in both Malay male and female children for all age groups except for F4 in female children aged 12 years. Generally, the Malaysian Malay children showed a nonsystematic decrement in formant frequencies with age. Low levels of significant differences in formant frequencies were observed across the age groups in most of the vowels for F1, F3, and F4 in Malay male children and F1 and F4 in Malay female children.
马来西亚马来儿童的共振峰频率尚未得到充分研究。本文使用声学分析研究了 360 名年龄在 7 至 12 岁之间的马来儿童的四个前共振峰频率。一般来说，马来女童的共振峰频率高于男童。然而，在大多数元音和年龄组中，马来男女童的四个共振峰频率均无显著差异。除了 12 岁的女童 F4 外，在所有年龄组中，马来男女童的所有元音的所有共振峰频率均存在显著差异。一般来说，马来西亚马来儿童的共振峰频率随年龄呈非系统性下降。在大多数元音中，除了马来男童的 F1、F3 和 F4 以及马来女童的 F1 和 F4 外，在大多数元音中，在各个年龄组中，共振峰频率的差异水平均较低。
