Word-Palatograms and Articulation

Abstract

THE purpose of these notes is to suggest a new approach in the study of articulation with the aid of palatography.The language material studied consists of words in English, Marathi, Burmese, Chinese, and Fijian uttered for the purpose by native speakers of the languages, trained to work with artificial palates.It must constantly be borne in mind that utterances are events,notfacts. The finding and the stating of the facts are the business of the phonetician. He attempts this by means of a set of correlated techniques each one of which makes its own specialized abstractions from the utterances. The findings are stated in the technical syntax and idiom of the discipline, employing categories and notations required by the conceptual framework.