Abstract
While dynamic palatography, a method of measuring tongue‐palate contact over time, has a long history, the method has seen limited use because of the need to custom‐make a palate for each subject. Recently, the Rion Company has developed a “universal” semiflexible palate, with 64 contact points, in several sizes. This methodological study was designed to assess the comparability of data from flexible and custom‐made palates, and the stability and reliability of flexible palate measures. Three speakers repeated multiple tokens of /isi/ and /asa/ with both palate types, and with flexible palates removed and replaced. While test‐retest reliability was satisfactory for flexible palates, the custom‐flexible comparisons revealed the need to develop measures of subject‐to‐subject differences in palate size and shape, if the technique is to develop its potential for large‐scale studies of articulation in normal and clinical populations. Comments will be made on analysis software, sampling rate, and contact‐point distribution. [Work supported by NIH Grant NS‐13617.]
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