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Tongue strength and speech intelligibility

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Tongue strength and speech intelligibility in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy.
Tongue weakness is presumed to contribute to reduced articulatory precision and speech intelligibility, but studies of dysarthric speakers do not consistently find a correlation between decreases in maximal tongue strength and speech measures. In this study, estimates of maximal tongue strength and ...
December 1, 2006; Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology

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