Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Vowels in Cleft Palate Children with or without Hypernasality

Table 4

Correlation coefficients between the mLE₁ (mean of the first Lyapunov exponents) and NS (nasalance score).

	mLE1 of /a/	mLE1 of /i/	mLE1 of /u/	mLE1 of /e/	mLE1of /o/
NS of /a/	0.177
	0.582
NS of /i/		0.430
		0.163
NS of /u/			0.420
			0.174
NS of /e/				0.131
				0.685
NS of /o/					0.424
					0.170

Upper column: correlation coefficients, lower column: P value.