Jaw and lip movements of deaf talkers producing utterances with known stress patterns

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Abstract

This investigation determined whether prelingually deaf talkers could correctly produce stressed and unstressed syllables across known changes in stress patterning and phonetic composition. Three deaf and three hearing adults spoke sets of homogeneous syllable strings with stress patterns that they could tap successfully with a finger. Strain gauge transduction of lower lip and jaw movement indicated that both deaf and hearing subjects produced different displacements and durations for the stressed and unstressed syllables, regardless of the stress pattern. Jaw movement did not become more variable with changes in phonetic composition of the syllables. The results show no evidence that motoric abilities (as assessed in lip and jaw movements) limit deaf talkers in producing desired stress patterns.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2675-2683
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume87
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1990

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