What is it about?
The results found that Mandarin tongue-tie children did not produce age-appropriate speech patterns compared to their normal-developing peers. Meanwhile, the perceptual transcription results found that their production was significantly misidentified, suggesting severely affected intelligibility. The findings provide strong support for a correlation between ankyloglossia and distorted speech signals.
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Why is it important?
This is the first attempt to evaluate the acoustic properties and the perceptual consequences of Mandarin-speaking children with ankyloglossia, while previous studies have yet to provide acoustic evidence in examining the relation between ankyloglossia and speech outcomes.
Perspectives
We argue that ankyloglossia should not be a purely appearance-based diagnosis, and that speech production is a crucial index of tongue function in clinical decision-making and monitoring.
Shan Luo
Yangzhou University
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This page is a summary of: Acoustic and Perceptual Categorization of Sibilants for Mandarin Children With Ankyloglossia, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, July 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2023_ajslp-22-00231.
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