Lingual-palatal pressure measurement and analysis techniques.

Peak lingual pressure magnitude measurements obtained during speech are related to the design of the pressure-sensing transducers. The results of one investigation (Appl and Leeper, 1973) suggest that the response of cantilever beam transducers used to collect lingual pressure data is dependent upon the location of the strain gages upon the beam. Some differences between prior investigations designed to study the role of lingual pressure in a feedback model of speech processing can be explained by the placement of the strain gages on the beam.