This study describes tongue movements of normal preschool children dUring eatmg, and is the first jJhase 111 a long-term proJfct to develop a standardned eatmg assessment for children. 11 is hoped eventually to fill the need for an objectIVe measurement tooL m pecllOtrl.C occupational therapy practice. The movements lOne monitored In 40 children; 20 were 4 years ± 1 month, and 20 were 5 years ±...

Previous work has shown that languages differ in their articulatory setting, the postural configuration that the vocal tract articulators tend to adopt when they are not engaged in any active speech gesture, and that this posture might be specified as part of the phonological knowledge speakers have of the language. This study tests whether the articulatory setting of a language can be acquired...

This paper describes a system for the acquisition, real-time synchronization and analysis of acoustic, electropalatographic (EPG) and ultrasonographic (UTI) data. Simultaneous data on linguo-palatal contact and tongue sagittal profiles are captured for rhotic consonants produced by a native speaker of Italian. Three anterior variants of /r/ ([ɾ], [ɹ̝] and [ɹ]) are shown to be realized with an ap...

The paper discusses an instrumented tapping test method using a CNC machine tool to compare the lubricity of MWFs by cutting threads in Ti-6Al-4V alloy at low speed. uses spiral flute tap size typical industrial practice. A soft synchronous holder and spindle mounted dynamometer were incorporated on measure torque thrust force. was demonstrated three groups that commercially available classifie...

The main result of this paper is that simple (raster scan) sequential algorithms for computing Euclidean Distance Transforms can be implemented in an optimized manner from the point of view of numerical computations. We will show that these fast implementations have computational complexities comparable to the city block, chessboard and other simple chamfer Distance Transforms.