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Mispronunciations and compensatory movements of tongue‐operated patients *
Author(s) -
Barry William J.,
Timmermann Gerd
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682828509012251
Subject(s) - tongue , psychology , intelligibility (philosophy) , glossectomy , audiology , tip of the tongue , german , communication , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , epistemology
Palatographic, acceptability and transcription data are presented for extracts from a German text read by seven partial‐glossectomy patients. The speakers' degree of acceptability appears to be related more to postoperative lingual mobility than to the amount of tongue mass remaining. There is a discrepancy between the intelligibility and acceptability of the patients' speech on the one hand and the relative lack of change in palatographic contact patterns on the other. Possible compensatory articulations are discussed.