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Journal of Dental Research, Vol 72, 964-967, Copyright © 1993 by International & American Associations for Dental Research Online Journals

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Closest speaking space during the production of sibilant sounds and its value in establishing the vertical dimension of occlusion

C. A. Burnett and T. J. Clifford
Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Clinical Dentistry, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether the production of sibilant sounds involved adopting a jaw position that corresponded to the closest vertical speaking space (CSS), by analysis of the smallest vertical excursion of the mandible during the performance of different phonetic exercises. A further objective was to establish the variability in the CSS produced by individual sibilant phonemes. Thirty young adult subjects had their CSS determined during three separate phonetic tests, using a kinesiograph (Sirognathograph, Siemens A.G., Benshiem, Germany) and a Bio-Pak (BioResearch Associates Inc., Milwaukee, WI) jaw-tracking software program. The first test was a general phonetic articulation test containing all the sounds of the English language and specifically including all six sibilant word sounds. The second phonetic test contained the six sibilant sound making up a short sentence. The third test included six single words, each expressing a different sibilant sound. No statistically significant difference among the mean CSS determined in each of three exercises was demonstrable. A phonetic test containing all sibilant sounds produced a CSS equivalent to that of a test containing all speech sounds. The vertical component of the CSS was also independent of the form or duration of the phonetic tests containing the sibilant word sounds used in this investigation. The CSS determined for 5 of the individual sibilant phonemes in the third exercise differed (p < 0.05) from that calculated for the three complete exercises. It was concluded that voicing sibilant phonemes, or word sounds, does cause the subject to adopt the CSS.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)




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