Abstract Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays an increasing role in the study of speech.
This article reviews the MRI literature of anatomical imaging, imaging for acoustic modelling …

Rhotics and laterals pattern together in a variety of ways that suggest that they form a
phonological class (Walsh-Dickey 1997), yet capturing the relevant set of consonants and …

Purpose To develop and evaluate a technique for 3D dynamic MRI of the full vocal tract at
high temporal resolution during natural speech. Methods We demonstrate 2.4× 2.4× 5.8 …

Linguopalatal and sagittal vocal tract configuration data from a large number of languages
reveal that the so-called palatal consonants (ie [ç ʎ c ɲ j]), as well as the vowel [i], are often …

Advances on real-time magnetic resonance imaging (RT-MRI) make it suitable to study the
dynamic aspects of the upper airway. One of the main challenges concerns how to deal with …

Infants have remarkable abilities to learn several languages. However, phonological
acquisition in bilingual infants appears to vary depending on the phonetic similarities or …

Several studies have demonstrated that second/foreign language (L2/FL) speech learning is
a challenge to late learners (ie, adolescents or adults) in terms of perception and production …

The Ikema dialect of Miyako Island in Okinawa, Japan, has typologically rare word-initial and
voiced geminate obstruents (eg/vva/'you',/ffa/'child',/tta/'tongue',/badda/'side'). These sounds …

Lateral approximant speech sounds are notoriously difficult to measure and describe due to
their complex articulation and acoustics. This has prevented researchers from reaching a …

In this paper, we present a database of synchronized audio and Real-Time Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (RT-MRI) in order to study dynamic aspects of the production of …