| Abstract | [Introduction]
Since the topics discussed in this report are divided in a fashion which is reasonable from the point of view of labor-sharing, but not from the point of view of orderly theoretical exposition, I shall begin by making a distinction between the nature of the data obtained from fiberoptic and transillumination studies, on the one hand, and eletromyographic studies, on the other. Although both these techniques are useful in discussions of the orofacial functioning other than speech, the speech area is one that I know best, and, consequently, I shall make no attempt to review the extensive literature on the use of electromyography in the study of chewing, for example. |