title: Fricative duration in esophageal speech.
abstract: Comparative observations were made of fricative (/s/ and /z/) durations of normal and esophageal speakers. Differences between the average durational characteristics of fricatives spoken by normal and esophageal speakers varied systematically as a function of their voicing features. Findings were interpreted to lend additional support to the following views: (1) laryngeal amputation occasions widespread changes in speech production, (2) esophageal speakers exhibit articulatory behaviors, and (3) esophageal speakers retain fricative durational voicing contrast features.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013071:Speech, Alaryngeal; D013072:Speech, Esophageal; D013997:Time Factors