title: Nasal consonants in esophageal speech.
abstract: Nasalization of nasal consonants was measured using the ratio of a nasal accelerometer signal amplitude to air-borne microphone signal amplitude. Utterances produced by 3 esophageal speakers were studied. Word position (and time following air injection) of the nasal consonants was varied. Degree of nasal resonance was dependent on word position, with significantly higher values for word-final than for word-initial position.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, College Park.
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Hamlet
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009666:Nose / Q000502:physiology; D010700:Phonetics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013071:Speech, Alaryngeal; D013072:Speech, Esophageal