Abstract
necessary to hold a certain pressure of air behind the articulation point. The authors had decided to call the air pressure “the pressure effect of articulation”, and had reported about the measuring method and its usefulness in the diagnosis of articulation defects in nasal speech. 9)
In this series of experiments, the characteristics of Japanese consonants plosives, fricatives and affricates, were investigated from the viewpoint of the intraoral pressure change produced by the articulation.
