This study explored the relationship between articulator movement and prosody in children at different developmental ages. Jaw, lower lip, and upper lip kinematics were examined in 4-, 7-, and 11-year-old children as they produced the declarative and interrogative forms of utterances "Show Bob a bot" and "Show Pop a pot." Articulator movement differences were found between declaratives and inte...

AIM The present study was aimed to assess the transferability of occlusal plane (OP) orientation from the patient to the articulators with the help of two different facebow systems and evaluated with a gold standard. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty dentate patients were selected for the study. Two semi-adjustable arcon articulators that are Hanau Wide(®) Vue using SpringBow and Whip Mix(®) using...

Radar-like sensors enable the measuring of speech articulator conditions, especially their shape changes and contact events both during silent and normal speech. Such information can be used to associate articulator conditions with digital “codes” for use in communications, machine control, speech masking or canceling, and other applications.

A mathematical simulation of the Denar D4A articulator and a simulated complement of graphically represented teeth were programmed in a Prime 4000 minicomputer. The computer program could be manipulated to quantitatively evaluate the theoretical effects of changes in articulator and control factors on the anatomy of selected teeth or tooth groups. The effects of these changes could be assessed ...

The purpose of this study was to research the possible influence of difference in construction of mechanical joint in arcon and nonarcon articulators, upon the adjustment of condylar inclination by intraoral protrusive record. The determination of condylar inclination by protrusive record in two types of articulators was performed on 30 examinees, and the adjustment of condylar inclination in e...

The movements of the different speech articulators are known to be correlated to various degrees during speech production. In this paper, we investigate whether the inter-articulator correlation is preserved among the articulators estimated through acoustic-toarticulatory inversion using the generalized smoothness criterion (GSC). GSC estimates each articulator separately without explicitly usi...

The many-to-one mapping from representations in the speech articulatory space to acoustic space renders the associated acoustic-to-articulatory inverse mapping non-unique. Among various techniques, imposing smoothness constraints on the articulator trajectories is one of the common approaches to handle the non-uniqueness in the acoustic-to-articulatory inversion problem. This is because, articu...