Investigating the use of a nonspeech task to measure tongue–jaw differentiation: Findings across typical development

HC Small, T McAllister, MI Grigos - American journal of speech-language …, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose Clinically, a task of alternating tongue lateralization has been used to evaluate the
ability to independently control the tongue and jaw, with jaw movement interpreted as a sign …

Physiologic development of tongue–jaw coordination from childhood to adulthood

HY Cheng, BE Murdoch, JV Goozée, D Scott - 2007 - ASHA
Purpose This investigation aimed to examine the development of tongue–jaw coordination
during speech from childhood to adolescence. Method Electromagnetic articulography was …

A normative-speaker validation study of two indices developed to quantify tongue dorsum activity from midsagittal tongue shapes

N Zharkova - Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This study reported adult scores on two measures of tongue shape, based on midsagittal
tongue shape data from ultrasound imaging. One of the measures quantified the extent of …

Comparing metrics for quantification of children's tongue shape complexity using ultrasound imaging

H Kabakoff, SP Beames, M Tiede… - Clinical linguistics & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Speech sound disorders can pose a challenge to communication in children that may persist
into adulthood. As some speech sounds are known to require differential control of anterior …

Tongue shape complexity in children with and without speech sound disorders

M Dokovova, E Sugden, G Cartney, S Schaeffler… - Journal of Speech …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: This study investigates the hypothesis that younger speakers and speakers with
more severe speech sound disorders are more likely to use simpler (undifferentiated) …

Spatial and temporal lingual coarticulation and motor control in preadolescents

N Zharkova, N Hewlett, WJ Hardcastle… - Journal of Speech …, 2014 - ASHA
Purpose In this study, the authors compared coarticulation and lingual kinematics in
preadolescents and adults in order to establish whether preadolescents had a greater …

Development of lingual motor control in children and adolescents

N Zharkova, WJ Hardcastle, F Gibbon… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - eresearch.qmu.ac.uk
An important insight into speech motor control development can be gained from analysing
coarticulation. Despite a growing number of acoustic and articulatory studies of lingual …

The effect of tongue–jaw coupling on phonetic distinctiveness of vowels in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

P Rong - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019 - ASHA
Purpose The aim of this study was to determine the relation of tongue–jaw coupling to
phonetic distinctiveness of vowels in persons at different stages (ie, early, middle, late) of …

Tongue-and jaw-specific articulatory changes and their acoustic consequences in talkers with dysarthria due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Effects of loud, clear, and …

AS Mefferd, MS Dietrich - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose This study aimed to determine how tongue and jaw displacement changes impact
acoustic vowel contrast in talkers with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and controls …

Developmental changes in the variability of tongue and lip movements during speech from childhood to adulthood: An EMA study

BE Murdoch, HY Cheng, JV Goozée - Clinical Linguistics & …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated the developmental variability of lip and tongue movement in 48
children and adults. Motion of the tongue-tip, tongue-body and lower lip was recorded using …