Abstract
The ability of five intelligible deaf talkers to reorganize articulatory gestures was examined with the use of a bite block. Each subject produced the phrase “say a pVp again” (where V = [i, a, u, æ, ı] or [ɛ]), with 14 repetitions of each vowel in random order. The speech samples were obtained with and without the subjects wearing their hearing aids. Measures of VOT, vowel duration, F1, and F2 were obtained from wideband spectrograms. The speech of the two subjects with an early onset of deafness was affected by the presence of the bite block whereas the speech of the remaining three subjects, whose deafness occurred in adulthood, was not. Performance was similar for all subjects irrespective of whether they were wearing their hearing aids. The role of auditory information in the formative years of speech motor control is discussed. [Research supported by the Easter Seal Research Foundation and a Biomedical Research Support Grant from the NIH.]
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