We present a Chinese-speaking patient, SJ, who makes phonological errors across all tasks involving oral production. Detailed analyses of the errors across different tasks reveal that the patterns are very similar for reading, oral picture naming, and repetition tasks, which are also comparable to the error patterns of the phonological buffer deficit cases reported in the literature. The nature...

Oral mucosa heals faster with less scar formation than skin and a hypertrophic scar is very rare in the oral cavity, but its mechanism has not been elucidated enough. To elucidate whether or not there are differences in growth factor expression between fibroblasts derived from buccal mucosal and normal skin, we investigated the expression of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), keratinocyte growth f...

Fricative production in children and adults has been widely studied using acoustic measures, but little information exists on how children learn to control both laryngeal and oral gestures for (voiceless) fricative production. Here, we report oral airflow data from four 5-year-old children and four women producing laryngeal and oral fricatives /h s z/. Functional data analysis was used to norma...