Effect of Age, Gender and Vowel Type on Vowel Space Area in Sinhala Speakers

dc.contributor.author	Narasimhan, S.V.
dc.contributor.author	Karunarathne, W.G.S.S.
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-15T07:43:36Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-15T07:43:36Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.citation	Narasimhan, S.V., Karunarathne, W.G.S.S. (2021) . Effect of Age, Gender and Vowel Type on Vowel Space Area in Sinhala Speakers, Vidyodaya Journal of Science No. 01 (2021) 13-20	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/10603
dc.description.abstract	This study was conducted to document the effect of age, gender and vowel type on vowel space area in Sinhala language. Three groups of participants were employed. Group 1 included 20 children, Group 2 included 20 adults and Group 3 consisted of 20 elderly subjects. All the subjects spoke the dialect of central province of Sri Lanka. Words consisting of three Sinhala short vowels /a/, /i/ and /u/ in were recorded. Formant frequencies of vowels were extracted and vowel space area was constructed. The results showed that the formant frequencies were significantly higher for children compared with those of adults. Female subjects had significantly higher formant frequency values than male subjects. Effect of vowel types were also significant on the formant frequencies and vowel space area. Sinhala also follows universal criteria of resonance characteristics and vocal tract constriction.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura	en_US
dc.subject	vowel space area, formant frequencies, Sinhala, vowel articulation	en_US
dc.title	Effect of Age, Gender and Vowel Type on Vowel Space Area in Sinhala Speakers	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.31357/vjs.v24i01.4961	en_US