Oral feedback I. Variability of the effect of nerve-block anesthesia upon speech.
| Number | 145 |
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| Year | 1973 |
| Drawer | 3 |
| Entry Date | 05/21/1998 |
| Authors | Borden, G. J., Harris, K. S., & Oliver, W. |
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| Publication | Journal of Phonetics, 1, 289-295. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0145.pdf |
| Abstract | The effects of bilateral mandibular nerve blocks on speech were judged by listeners and by transcribers. Seven adult male speakers repeated under normal and nerve-block conditions 66 sentences heavily weighted with consonant clusters known from pilot studies to be vulnerable to nerve-block distortion. Listener judgments of the speech revealed large magnitudes of S variance. Although all subjects reported loss of sensation, the effects on speech ranged from completely unaffected to markedly affected. Distortions were noted by narrow phonetic transcription in 23% of the data, most prominently in /s/ clusters. |
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