Year: 1974
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: The present study was designed to investigate anterior tongue activity during the production of alveolar stop consonants. Specific factors of interest were the distance the tongue moved to and from the consonantal occlusion, the time required for these movements, and the pressure at contact during the occlusion. Measures of these components were obtained from cineradiographic films and tongue pressure transducers. The subject for this study was a female speaker who produced /iti/, /idi/, /ata/, and /ada/ embedded in the phrase “say — again.” Distances the tongue tip moved to contact the alveolar ridge were greater for the open vowel /a/ combinations and less for /i/ combinations. The same relationship occurred when tongue moved away from occlusion. Time required to move to occlusion was equal for all utterances, but the time required for the opening movement was greater for /a/ combinations. Amounts of pressure associated with the occlusion showed opposite trend to that found for distance; pressures were greater for /i/ combinations than for /a/ combinations. Pressures exerted by the tongue to achieve closure appear to be unrelated to distance tongue must move to accomplish this gesture.
DOI: 10.1121/1.3437135
Authors: Robert E. McGlone, William Proffit, Robert Mason
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1986117974