부산 지역민의 연령대별 비음도 분석

Background and Objectives: Nasalance is different according to age, sex, region, and checked letters. This study was designed to examine the difference of nasality of people in busan according to gender and age. Materials and Methods: We divided subjects by age (children, adults, old people) and sex. Nasalance test was performed by nasometer. Results: The results after being used meaningless vowels of /i/ showed higher nasality in old people, and /u/, /a/ showed higher nasality in female of old people. In addition, in the mother, man and beach test sentences, old people had higher nasality than children and adult, especially female showed higher. Conclusions: This results will be able to become the preliminary data about the reserch of a nasality difference among the regions. (J Clinical Otolaryngol 2014;25:32-36)