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Mandarin tongue-tie children's speech production
What is it about?
The results found that Mandarin tongue-tie children did not produce age-appropriate speech patterns compared to their normal-developing peers. Meanwhile, the perceptual transcription results found that their production was significantly misidentified, suggesting severely affected intelligibility. The findings provide strong support for a correlation between ankyloglossia and distorted speech signals.
Why is it important?
This is the first attempt to evaluate the acoustic properties and the perceptual consequences of Mandarin-speaking children with ankyloglossia, while previous studies have yet to provide acoustic evidence in examining the relation between ankyloglossia and speech outcomes.