Abstract

Real time MRI presents an exciting new method for studying speech articulation, providing the ability to capture articulatory kinematics and coordination. The current study utilizes real time MRI to document the speech of a patient who has undergone partial glossectomy at both preoperative and postoperative time points. While previous work has studied and evaluated postoperative outcomes, the comparison of individual speakers preoperatively and postoperatively is lacking. The possibility of compensation for the pathological articulator by other articulators necessitates the ability to image multiple articulators simultaneously to observe changes in articulatory coordination. In this paper, we present a method for quantifying changes in articulatory behavior, such as compensation for pathology, between two points in time. We find no significant changes in the patient's articulatory coordination that would indicate …

Date

2017

Authors

Maury Lander-Portnoy, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S Narayanan

Journal

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volume

142

Issue

4_Supplement

Pages

2641-2642

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America