Market: Those interested in speech, especially speech production, and
graduate students studying the anatomy and physiology of speech.
Katherine Safford Harris is known throughout the speech research
community for her contributions to our understanding of speech behaviors
and her leadership at Haskins Laboratories. Her research has shown how
the study of speech disorders can provide a window through which we can
observe normal behaviors and learn much about the control systems of
speech production. In recognition of this work, each section of this
book contains chapters on normal speech production as well as speech
disorders. These original contributed chapters cover a wide range of
subjects, including respiratory patterns in normal speech, speech
breathing processes in hearing-impaired persons, laryngeal adductory
behaviors, spasmodic dysphonia, tongue shaping and vowel articulation,
speech production in children with cochlear implants, and more.