The influence that the wearing of the mask gives in phonetic convergence

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06787
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Fundamental nursing
• Research Institution: Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare
• Principal Investigator: Nakase Yudai 川崎医療福祉大学, 医療福祉学部, 助教 (30758826)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: コミュニケーション / 同調傾向 / 音声 / マスク

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of the phonetic convergence of the voice whether a difference produces it at mask wearing time and non-wearing. Two people talks five minutes, and compared the wearing group and the non-wearing group by the crossover method. A conversation was recorded and analyzed a product moment analysis of Pearson about power and fundamental frequency for an index of the phonetic convergence. 5-minute conversations are divided between ten wards every 30 seconds and had a comparison. As a result, the phonetic convergence was not seen in the power, but the phonetic convergence strongly appeared at the time of wearing mask at the fundamental frequency.

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